De Lane v. Moore
Supreme Court of the United States
This wás an appeal from the District Court of the United Statés for the Middle District of Alabama. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel
The appellants, iiqthe year 1847, ¿led their bill in the court aforesaid against the appellees, seeking of. them a discovery as •to certain slaves charged to have come to the possession of their testator, apd also an account and a recovery of'the value,’ increase, hires, and profits of those slaves, and claiming by name a negro woman named Linda or Linder, together with her children.
'The bill charges that in the' year 1816,'Mrs. Ann Wood De Láne, a widow; lady residing in the State of South Carolina* and possessed of’ valuable real estate, and of sundry slaves, being about to .izitermarry…
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