Giltner v. Gorham

(charging jury). This action is brought tc recover the value *425of six slaves claimed by the plaintiff, a citizen of Carroll county, Kentucky, who, having absconded from the service of the plaintiff, were arrested by his agents in the town of Marshall, in the state of Michigan, and who were by the defendants and others rescued, by reason of which their services have become lost to the plaintiff.

The second section of the fourth article of the constitution declares, that “no person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any…