Carter v. Bennett
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was brought up by appeal from a j'ugdmeut of -tbe- Circuit Court of the County of Franklin, at a Term of the Court in said County held by the Hon. Thomas Douglas, Judge, in the fall of 1848. The cause was argued and submitted at the adjourned Term of the Supreme Court held in the city of Tallahassee in July last, Judge Baker of the Middle Circuit, and Judge Lancaster of the Southern Circuit, sitting with the Chief Justice in the places of Justices Thompson and…
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This case was brought up by appeal from a j'ugdmeut of -tbe- Circuit Court of the County of Franklin, at a Term of the Court in said County held by the Hon. Thomas Douglas, Judge, in the fall of 1848. The cause was argued and submitted at the adjourned Term of the Supreme Court held in the city of Tallahassee in July last, Judge Baker of the Middle Circuit, and Judge Lancaster of the Southern Circuit, sitting with the Chief Justice in the places of Justices Thompson and Semmes, who had been of Counsel in the cause both in the Court below and in this Court. The most material facts in the case…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, Chief Justice
This was an action of trover brought by the apjoellee against the appellant in the County of Franklin, to recover damages for the alleged conversion of a number of negro slaves.
On the trial in that Court, at the Fall term of 1848, there was a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff for the amount of $19,999 66-100.
The case was brought by appeal to this Court. The errors assigned, being twenty-eight in number, we propose to consider in the order presented by the record, and to make such reference to the facts of the case as may be necessary to the proper understanding of the points upon…
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