Hooper v. . Moore
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an action of detinue, tried before MaNly, J., at the last Fall Term of Caswell Superior Court. The plaintiff declared for the detention of the slaves Fanny and her children, and alleged title, as administrator with the will annexed of Alexander Moore, under the provisions of that will. The testator lived and died in Halifax county, in the State of Yirginia.
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This was an action of detinue, tried before MaNly, J., at the last Fall Term of Caswell Superior Court. The plaintiff declared for the detention of the slaves Fanny and her children, and alleged title, as administrator with the will annexed of Alexander Moore, under the provisions of that will. The testator lived and died in Halifax county, in the State of Yirginia. His will was duly proved in that county .in April, 1850, and Woodson Hughes, the executor therein named, was qualified and received letters testamentary on the same. At January Term, 1855, of Caswell County Court, a certified copy…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, J.
V’hat is -the law of another State, or of a foreign country., is as much a “ question of law,” as what is the law of our own State. There is this difference, however : the court is pr \ ”.>ed to know judicially the public laws of our State, whib in respect to private laws, and the laws of other States ard í.-.t ign countries, this knowledge is not presumed; it folio.;C. at the existence of the hi4’er must be alleged and pr ■••■.c* as facts; for otherwise, the court cannot know or trf ■ notice of them. This is familiar learning ; 3 Wooddeson’c ; c . 3 75.
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