Hay v. Conner

Appeal from Baltimore County Court. The appellants, by their next friend, brought an action of trover in that ^oiirt against the appellee, for the conversion of a mulatto male slave called James Perry. The general issue was pleaded. The facts are stated in the following opinion of file county court, delivered at the trial in February 1802, by • , 1 : II. Ridc.ely, CL J. In this case the evidence offered to the jury is, that John Hay, deceased, father of the plaintiffs, in his life-time executed a bill of sale to the plaintiffs, who were and still are infants under the age of twenty-one years,…