Mouras v. Brewer

In this suit the plaintiff claims from the defendants in solido, with a lien on the schooner: 1. The sum of two thousand dollars, the value of his slave Arthur, alleged to have been illegally transported out of the State, some time in June, 1859, on board of the schooner A. C. Brewer.

2. The sum .of two hundred dollars, amount of damages alleged by plaintiff to have been sustained by him in consequence of the loss of his slave’s services, etc.; and, 3. The sum of five hundred dollars, the amount of the penal fine imposed by law in such cases, with privilege.

There was judgment in the Second…