Trustees of the Quaker Society v. Dickenson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
From Wayne. The action waft detinue, brought in the name of Jo-sepli0orden and fourteen other persons, styling themselves Trustees of the Religious Society or Congregation of Christians, called Friends or Quakers, of the Contenfnea Quarterly Meeting, &c.” to recover a negro slave,- and was tried before his honor Judge Ruffin, at April Term, 1836. On the trial, it appeared that in November 1817, one William Dickenson the elder, executed a deed, by which he conveyed the negro…
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From Wayne. The action waft detinue, brought in the name of Jo-sepli0orden and fourteen other persons, styling themselves Trustees of the Religious Society or Congregation of Christians, called Friends or Quakers, of the Contenfnea Quarterly Meeting, &c.” to recover a negro slave,- and was tried before his honor Judge Ruffin, at April Term, 1836. On the trial, it appeared that in November 1817, one William Dickenson the elder, executed a deed, by which he conveyed the negro slave in question and others, “to Thomas Cox, Joseph Borden and Francis Mace, Trustees of the Religious Society and…
1Opinion of the Court
Tatxoe, Chief-Justice.
The deed of gift executed to the three Trustees of the Friends Association does upon its face, convey the negroes to them for the purposes an-thorised by tiie act of 1796, and deciding from the conveyance alone, passes a valid title to them. But as the Defendant was a stranger to the deed, it is competent for him to give parol evidence of the real objects of the deed, and of the trusts it was intended to effect, beyond those expressed, (3 Term Rep. 474-8 Term 379—Starkie on Ev. P. 4, 1051—10 Johns. 229.)
Before the passing of the act of 1796, the Society of Friends had no…
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