Richardson v. Means
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court. This was an action commenced June 17, 1853, by Maria L. Richardson (the husband having afterwards been made a party by an amended petition) for the recovery of a female slave and her two children, alleged in the petition to have been wrongfully taken by the defendant, May 1, 1849, and unlawfully detained by him.
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Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court. This was an action commenced June 17, 1853, by Maria L. Richardson (the husband having afterwards been made a party by an amended petition) for the recovery of a female slave and her two children, alleged in the petition to have been wrongfully taken by the defendant, May 1, 1849, and unlawfully detained by him. Defendant, in his answer, denied the title of plaintiff, and claimed title in himself, and relied upon a bill of sale to himself, dated May 1, 1848, of the negress and one child, executed by Thomas R. Richardson, husband of plaintiff, Maria, and…
1Opinion of the CourtLeonard, Judge
We can not reverse this judgment, no matter how much we may regret that parties, by a slip in the form of proceeding, should subject themselves to costs and delay in the judicial enforcement of their rights. The instructions given are correct in point of law, and this seems to be-admitted ; but the objection is, that the one given by the court upon its own suggestion, was not warranted by any evidence in the cause, and that,, although correct in the abstract, it had the effect of misleading the jury. If this could be made apparent to us, it might furnish sufficient ground for reversing the…
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