M'Ghee v. Ellis

Ofmiosopm Court, by

Judge Miles.

Under an execution in favor of M'Ghee, (the plain" tiff in error,) against Micajah Browning, the sheriff seized and sold a negro boy slave, as the property of Browning, and Elljs, the defendant in error, became the purchaser, at three months’’ credit, and executed his bond with security, to M’Ghee, for the price thereof, in the usual form. Shortly afterwards. James Brown, who claimed the slave as his, by title paramount to that of Browning, brought his action of detinue for the slave, against Ellis, and recovered. Ellis then exhibited this bill against both…