Perry v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of the Western Circuit for Santa Rosa County. The facts of the case are contained in the opinion of the Court to which reference is made.
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, J.
This is an action of Trover brought to recover the value of a slave lost by Lewis, the plaintiff below,, in Sumpter County, Alabama, in July, 1844—sold by one Jones, to Henshaw of Covington County, Alabama,, on the 11th November, 1844—by Henshaw again sold to- Criglar of Sant* *556Rosa County, Florida, on the 26th June, 1848—and finally sold by Criglar to the present plaintiff in error, Perry, who was the defendant below of the same county and State, on the 26th October, 1849, the plaintiff being ignorant whose possession the slave was in, until April, 1851.
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