Lamar v. Williams
Mississippi Supreme Court
Errob to' the Circuit Court of Rankin county. Hon. John Watts, judge. This was an action of trespass by plaintiffs’ intestate to recover, damage for injuries done to his slave by defendants. The pleadings are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Errob to' the Circuit Court of Rankin county. Hon. John Watts, judge. This was an action of trespass by plaintiffs’ intestate to recover, damage for injuries done to his slave by defendants. The pleadings are stated in the opinion of the court. The case as it appears from the evidence is substantially this: defendants, Lamar and Kersh, came to the house of Simon Williams, plaintiffs’ intestate, and stated to Williams that another slave had charged plaintiffs’ slave with harboring a runaway slavebelonging to said Lamar, and asked permission of Williams to carry his said slave to a neighbor’s…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This action was instituted by the intestate of the defendant in error, against the plaintiffs in error, to recover damages for unlawfully seizing and beating a slave belonging to the intestate. Pending the action, the death of the intestate was suggested, and an order was made to revive the suit in the name of his administrators, in whose names it was subsequently carried on and tried.
The defendants below pleaded : 1. Not guilty. 2. Justification by license, and averring agency of the slave in harboring the slave of defendants as the cause of the beating.
' Several grounds of error in the…
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