Harrison v. Sims
Supreme Court of Virginia
Randolph Harrison and Samuel Jones exhibited their Bill to Chancellor C. Taylor, in which they alleged that Executions to the amount of more than $700, were levied upon three girls, viz: Julia, Lavinia and Lucy, together with other property, belonging to a certain Charles Irvine, of the county of Buckingham: that at the sale which took place on the 22d June, 1827, under the Executions, the Plaintiffs became the purchasers of the three girls, and of three mules, at the price…
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Randolph Harrison and Samuel Jones exhibited their Bill to Chancellor C. Taylor, in which they alleged that Executions to the amount of more than $700, were levied upon three girls, viz: Julia, Lavinia and Lucy, together with other property, belonging to a certain Charles Irvine, of the county of Buckingham: that at the sale which took place on the 22d June, 1827, under the Executions, the Plaintiffs became the purchasers of the three girls, and of three mules, at the price of $736, which property was left on the plantation of the said Irvine, for the convenience of his family, the said girls…
1Opinion of the Court
The President
delivered the opinion of the Court.*
The Chancellor was mistaken in supposing, when he dissolved the Injunction in this case, that the cases in 3 Rand, on like subjects, had escaped the notice of the Judges of the Court of Appeals. A more attentive consideration of those cases would have conducted him to a different conclusion. Though there is some little diversity of opinion, whether peculiar value of slave property ought to be stated in the Bill, praying relief in such cases, yet the result of the cases is, that when that matter is alleged in the Bill, as in the case now before…
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