Jack v. Eales
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN’ ERROR. THIS was á writ of error to the Common Pleas of Westmoreland, to bring up the record and proceedings in an action of homine replegiando.
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IN’ ERROR. THIS was á writ of error to the Common Pleas of Westmoreland, to bring up the record and proceedings in an action of homine replegiando. When thereofanegroormíflatto child in the office of the peace,under the does not bear any date*the must- say whetherit was made ist Ay^;/i789le That act, notauthorizís^d requires the p^^admin. ister to the ^ v“.;fication of the return he makes of the age and description of the child, &c. does not prevent a justice of the peace from doing it by virtue of his general powers.
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
delivered the court’s opinion.
The plaintiff in error claimed the defendant as his servant until the age of twenty-eight years, under the act of assembly of 29th March 1788.
In support of his claim, he produced an authenticated copy of an entry on the records of Washington county, as follows: “ foseph Bently of Washington county in Nottingham town- “ ship, millwright, enters a female negro child (agreeably to “ law) named Eales, and aged three years and seven months, “ Oath made before Win. Parker esq. to the age &c. of the “ said child, the 1st day of April 1789.”
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