Brewer v. Harris
Supreme Court of Virginia
In October 1848 Retha Harris, a free woman of co-lour, and whose husband was a slave, on behalf of herself and her three children, Sally, Joannah and Milly Harris, applied to the Judge of the Circuit Court of Henry county for a writ of habeas corpus, to require John S. Brewer to bring the said Sally, Joannah and Milly into Court; and charging that they were illegally detained in custody by Brewer.
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In October 1848 Retha Harris, a free woman of co-lour, and whose husband was a slave, on behalf of herself and her three children, Sally, Joannah and Milly Harris, applied to the Judge of the Circuit Court of Henry county for a writ of habeas corpus, to require John S. Brewer to bring the said Sally, Joannah and Milly into Court; and charging that they were illegally detained in custody by Brewer. The writ was awarded; and Breioer, in obedience thereto, brought the parties into Court, and certified their cause of detention to be, that they had been bound to him as apprentices by one of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
By the 2d section of the statute of the 6th of April 1839, concerning apprentices bound out by *298overseers of the poor, it is enacted “ that all indentures of apprenticeship executed pursuant to an order of Court, shall be filed in the clerk’s office of the Court, within six months from the date of the order. And it shall be ^ie c^er^ t0 endorse on said indentures the day on which they were delivered to him to be filed; and unless such indentures shall be so filed and endorsed, they shall not be available so as to entitle the master, mistress, or their assigns, to the services of the…
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