Hardeman v. Sims
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Chancery Court of Columbiana. THIS was a bill in Chancery, filed by the plaintiffs in error, against the defendants in error.
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Error to the Chancery Court of Columbiana. THIS was a bill in Chancery, filed by the plaintiffs in error, against the defendants in error. The bill charges that the grand-father of the complainants, one Turner Christian, on the 14th September, 1822, by deed duly recorded in the clerk’s office of Charles City county, Virginia, conveyed to them certain negro slaves, which were then in the possession of their father, and which he shortly after brought with him to this State.’ That they were then, and, with the exception of one of the complainants, still are, infants; that their father being a…
1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.
The first question to be considered is, whether such a case is made by the bill, as will give the Court of *749Chancery jurisdiction. The object of the bill is, to recover a slave alleged to be a family negro. -
It is certainly true, that slaves, although by our law considered property, differ in many respects from other chattels* and many cases may be supposed in tyhich it is not proper that they should be considered as mere chattels. They are intellectual, moral beings, and attachments of the strongest kind, sometimes grow up between master and slave, having its origin not unfrequently in early…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Marsteller and Others v. McCleanSupreme Court of the United States · 1812
3Cited by13 opinions
- James v. JamesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
- Robertson v. BurrellCalifornia Supreme Court · 1895
- McLeod v. McLeodSupreme Court of Alabama · 1882
- Cameron v. Hicks.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1906
- Lovelace v. HutchinsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1894
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