Moore v. Brown

In the county court o£.Mississippi, Brown, as the administrator di Gray, filed a paper in the nature of a claim or demand against the estate of Moore’s decedent, for a negro slave alleged to have belonged to the decedent of the said administrator, and to have been converted to the use of the decedent of the executor, (during the life time of the parties,) and to have been worth seven hundred dollars. The claimant had a verdict and judgment in the county court for five hundred and sixteen dollars, and on the defendant’s appeal to the circuit court for five hundred and ninety-eight dollars, two…