Bosworth v. Brand

Judge Nicholas

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This was an action on the case, in which Brand obtained a verdict and judgment against Bosworth, for the value of a slave killed on Bosworth’s farm, at a negro frolic, or dance. The case, when stated most favorably for the verdict, is, that Bosworth permitted some fifty ne-trolling party surrounded the house about midnight, for the purpose of apprehending the negroes and breaking up the frolic ; that the negroes refused to surrender when called upon so to do, and endeavored to make their escape ; that one of the patrol, without any necessity…