Bright v. White
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from Howard Circuit Court. 1. The hook offered as Hayward & Cobh’s Revisal and Digest of the Laws of Tennessee does purport to be printed under the authority of said State, as evidence of its legislative acts. 2. Caruthers and Nicholson’s Compilation does purport to the same effect. 3. The judicial records and proceedings of the County Court of Warren county, Tennessee, are admissible as evidence in the courts of this State. 4. The proceedings offered in evidence are…
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APPEAL from Howard Circuit Court. 1. The hook offered as Hayward & Cobh’s Revisal and Digest of the Laws of Tennessee does purport to be printed under the authority of said State, as evidence of its legislative acts. 2. Caruthers and Nicholson’s Compilation does purport to the same effect. 3. The judicial records and proceedings of the County Court of Warren county, Tennessee, are admissible as evidence in the courts of this State. 4. The proceedings offered in evidence are duly attested. — 1 Starkie, 196 et seq.j 3 Pickering, 293; Rev. Stat. of Mass., chap. 94, sec. 59; 1 Story’s Dig., 93 ;…
1Opinion of the Court
Tompkins J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Jacob Bright, and Hannah, his wife; Joseph Stapp, and Esther, his wife ; John Stapp, and Nancy, his wife, and Margaret Wilson, sued John R. White in the Circuit Court of Howard county, and judgment being there given against them, they appeal to this court.
The action was brought to recover damages for the conversion of two negroes, slaves for life, charged to have been converted by White to his own use.
The plaintiffs claimed the slaves in controversy as female heirs of their mother, Elizabeth Wilson, who was the daughter of Joseph Dial, lately…
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