Geron v. Geron
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Madison. Before the Hon. Sidney C. Posey. This was an action of detinue, instituted by defendant, against the plaintiff in error, to recover possession- of a female slave.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Madison. Before the Hon. Sidney C. Posey. This was an action of detinue, instituted by defendant, against the plaintiff in error, to recover possession- of a female slave. By the bill' of exceptions, it appears that, in 1836, one Lewis M. Sumpter, who married the daughter of Solomon Geron, to which daughter the said Geron had, before her marriage with Sumpter, given the slave in controversy, allowed the defendant in error to remove said slave from Tennessee to the state of Alabama, where he kept possession of her, and hired her out from year to year, until 1846,…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
The proof, in the court below, was conflicting,, whether the defendant in error was the absolute owner of the slave in suit, or held her in pledge for the pay*561ment of $450, which he had previously advanced to Solomon Geron to redeem her from a person to whom Solomon had sold said slave. We are informed by the bill of exceptions, that shortly before the institution of the suit by Jehu Geron against the plaintiff in error for the slave, the latter called upon said Jehu, and presented two orders from one Lewis M. Sumpter, one authorizing him to demand and receive said slave from Jehu Geron , the…
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