Adams v. Preston
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana. The facts in the case were complicated, and not to be understood by a brief narrative. The reader is therefore referred to the opinion of the court, in which they are historically relate-i.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
We have given our best consideration to this record, in connection with the minute statement made from it by the counsel of the complainant, withQut having been able to find any cause for the reversal of the j udgment.
The plaintiff sued the defendants, John S. Preston and Caroline M. Preston his wife, as the joint possessors of one hundred and thirteen negroes,.and their increase, to subject them, and the revenues which had been derived from their labor, to the payment of certain judgments which the plaintiff says he owns, as the assignee of the Union Bank of Louisiana.
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