Broh v. Jenkins
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans. This suit is brought by the plaintiff, as heir to his mother, to recover a slave named Lazare.
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Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans. This suit is brought by the plaintiff, as heir to his mother, to recover a slave named Lazare. The testimony on the part of the plaintiff is, that he is the only child of madame Broh; that the slave Lazare belonged to her, in the year 1803, when she resided at Jeremy, in the island of St. Domingo; that she sent him to Charleston in that year; that she died at Baracoa, about the end of 1808, or beginning of 1809; that the plaintiff was born in 1792, or 1793, and was consequently 26 or 27 years old when this suit was commenced. The…
1Opinion of the CourtPorter, J.
The presiding judge of this court, has gone so fully into the case, in the opinion which he has prepared, that I shall confine my examination to what I consider the main question in the cause, and that is, whether the statute of limitations, of South-Carolina, has vested a title to the slave in the defendant.
This enquiry, I think, will be best conducted by pursuing the following divisions of the subject:—
*5511. Did the statute vest a title in South-Carolina?
2. Whether the owner of the property is bound by a law of this description, when it proved, that he did not reside in the country, where it…
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