Legal Opinion
Hopkins v. Burney
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided January 15, 1848PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Error to Duval Circuit Court, where this cause was tried before Judge Macrae.
1Opinion of the Court
Douglas, Chief J ustiee,
delivered the following:
This is an action of replevin instituted in the Circuit Court of Du-val County by Benjamin Hopkins and Solomon Moody against Arthur Burney to recover a certain negro slave named Charles. The declaration contains but a single count to which a plea of “mom cepil modo et forma” was put in, but was on the same day on which it was filed withdrawn by leave of the court for reasons stated in the record, which however are not material to the decision of this case. On the 17th day of November, 1847, the plaintiffs by their counsel moved the Court for a…
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