Duckett v. Crider

This action of detinue was brought by Duckett and wife' for the recovery of a female slave, Mary, and her children, in possession of Crider, who had purchased and received the mother about nine years before from one Wyatt, who had purchased her from J. J. Satterfield, who had early in the year 1835 purchased her from Gray, her owner, but had taken the bill of sale to his niece, Eliza Satterfield, now E. Duckett, and one of the plaintiffs. A trial was had upon the plea of non detinet, and a verdict having been found for the defendant under instructions moved for by him, and which, *189being…