Laughlin v. Ferguson

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This-bill was filed by John Laughlin, to enjoin perpetually the enforcement against him of a forthcoming bond, executed by h.im, as the surety of George Snyder; for the delivery of a negro woman and her infant child, taken in execution as the property of Snyder, under a judgment of the Clarke Circuit Court, in favor of Ferguson.

Besides other allegations, which, being denied and not sustained by the slightest proof, need not be stated, the bill alleges, that the negroes were not the property of, Snyder, nor subject to the execution, but that…