Armfield v. . Moore
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an action of replevin, brought to recover two slaves, tried at Union Superior Court of Law, Spring term, 1851, before his Honor, Judge Battle.
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This was an action of replevin, brought to recover two slaves, tried at Union Superior Court of Law, Spring term, 1851, before his Honor, Judge Battle. The following is the cáse transmitted to this Court:— “ The plaintiff in support of his action, introduced one Leander Harhncss, who proved the execution of a bill of sale to him for the slaves in question, from one Jane Moore, bearing date 23d May, 1849; that in a few days thereafter the witness hired the said slaves, together with others from the plaintiff, and took them to Brewer’s gold mine, in South Carolina; that he kept possession of…
1Opinion of the CourtPeaRson, J.
At January Term, 1848, of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Union, a petition was filed in the name of James Moore, one of the defendants, and Catharine his wife, Elizabeth Carnes, an infant by her guardian James Moore, and Jane Moore, setting forth that the said James, Elizabeth and Jane held in their possession as tenants in common four slaves “which had descended to the said Jane, Catharine and Elizabeth from their grandfather, one Joshua Gordon;” that Jane had intermarried in the year 1847 with one Melton Moore who is* since dead, and that Catharine had…
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