Woodcock v. Farrell
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 15 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAXi ER05I MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. The facts appear in the opinion of the court. 1. The answer does not present a valid defense. It does .•not allege that the slaves were well of the measles when the •defendant sold the first or the last of them, in August and September. The evidence that they were, in the absence of such allegation, was irrelevant.
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CASE 15 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAXi ER05I MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. The facts appear in the opinion of the court. 1. The answer does not present a valid defense. It does .•not allege that the slaves were well of the measles when the •defendant sold the first or the last of them, in August and September. The evidence that they were, in the absence of such allegation, was irrelevant. Plaintiffs were not shown to have been in default. 2. The bill of sale passed the title of the slaves to plaintiffs, and the subsequent sale by defendant, before the contingency had happened upon which plaintiffs were…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DUVALL
delivered the opinion of the court:
This action, as originally brought, was in the name of Woodcock alone, who claimed to be the owner of five slaves, which, being in the possession of the defendant, were by him sold and converted to his own use, and the plaintiff prayed judgment for $2,000, the alleged value of the slaves at the time of the conversion. Luring the trial, the petition was so amended, at the instance of the plaintiff, as to make White a co-plaintiff.
Farrell answered, setting up the following matters of defense: That the plaintiffs came to his house about the 2d of…
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