Archer v. Hart
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Duval Count)’'. Tkis was an action of debt on bond executed by appellees, by which, after reciting “ that whereas, the said Amaziah W. Archer and others have heretofore filed their petition before the Hon. Thomas Douglas, Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eastern Circuit of the State of Florida, and thereupon obtained an order to the Sheriff of Duval County, and caused to be arrested sundry persons of color, to wit: a boy called Dennis Bryan,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Duval Count)’'. Tkis was an action of debt on bond executed by appellees, by which, after reciting “ that whereas, the said Amaziah W. Archer and others have heretofore filed their petition before the Hon. Thomas Douglas, Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eastern Circuit of the State of Florida, and thereupon obtained an order to the Sheriff of Duval County, and caused to be arrested sundry persons of color, to wit: a boy called Dennis Bryan, also a girl called Mary Bryan, said colored persons and others being alleged in said petition to be slaves and tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, J.;
In a controversy which arose in the Circuit Coitrt Sitting in Duval County in relation to the slavery or freedom of •certain negroes, an issue was directed to be made up and tried at a- succeeding term of the Court; and in the meantime/ by consent of the claimants, of whom the present appellant was one,' two of the persons so claimed to be slaves for life, and then in custody, were delivered to the respondents upon their entering into bond in the penalty of four thousand dollars, payable to the appellant by name, with the addition of the terms “ and others,” conditioned that…
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