Baldree v. Davenport

By the court:

Slidell, J.

We consider the judgment against Baldree as fully sustained by the evidence. He is estopped from setting up any title adverse to the defendants, by the decree of the chancery court in Alabama, and by the deed executed by him on the 18th of September, 1846, soon after he brought the slave to this State, in contempt of that decree. The decree of compromise is *590inartifieially drawn, but manifests a clear intention on his part to abandon all pretensions whatever to the slave. We do not doubt but that in Alabama, the decree of whose court he had grossly violated, and from…