Yancey v. Downer

*8Opinion of the Court,

by Judge Mills.

Yancey, in an action of trespass for breaking his close an¿ house, and beating and wounding his slave, so that s'le was Ponfi°ed and useless for many months, recover-against Downer a verdict and judgment for five hundred and fifty dollars, from which Downer appealed anc^ eidere(l into an appeal bond, but never prosecuted the appeal, and afterwards filed this bill with injunction, praying the chancellor to grant him a new trial. ^ie cHancellor decreed a new trial, and to reverse that decree, Yancey has prosecuted this writ of error,

The grounds of equity set…