Gill v. Strozier
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover, in Lee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, at September Term, 1860. This was an action brought by Jacob P. Strozier, as the administrator of George H. Price, deceased, against William C. Gill, to recover damages for the alleged conversion by him of two negro slaves and their children, belonging to the plaintiff’s intestate.
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Trover, in Lee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, at September Term, 1860. This was an action brought by Jacob P. Strozier, as the administrator of George H. Price, deceased, against William C. Gill, to recover damages for the alleged conversion by him of two negro slaves and their children, belonging to the plaintiff’s intestate. On the trial of this case, in the Court below, the plaintiff introduced as witnesses Catherine Foster, Daniel Woolbright and Lott Warren, whose testimony developed the facts: That Mrs. Eliza Delphia Jackson, who was then a widow, and the daughter of John…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lyon, J.,
delivering the opinion.
1. The verdict is not contrary to and against the weight of the evidence, nor against the law. On the contrary, there is a sufficient evidence to suppórt it. The evidence of Mrs. Catherine Foster and Daniel Woolbright was, that Price, the intestate, after his intermarriage with Delphia or Elizabeth, the daughter of John Peteet, then in life but since deceased, brought home to the county of Lee, where he (Price) lived, from the county of Wilkes, where his father-in-law (Peteet) *693lived, the two negro girls, Barbara and Milly, from whom the balance of…
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