Gentry v. McMinnis

delivered the Opinion of the Court..

The plaintiff in error asks the reversal of a judgment for costs and nominal damages, obtained against him, by the defendant in error, on an issue involving her liberty or slavery, in an action of trespass, which, for trying her claim to freedom, she had instituted in consequence of his claiming her to be his slave, and exercising over her the dominion of a master.

Two depositions having been read on the trial, tending to prove, that the defendant was bom in Pennsylvania, since the year 1780; that she had been brought to-Kentucky in 1797 or 8, and had, about…