Church v. Chambers

About the last of May, 18'31, William Chambers, now defendant in error, brought a suit in chancery, in the' Jefferson- Circuit Court, against the plaintiffs in error— some as owners and others as officers of the steam boat ^agn0^at f°r purpose of recovering damages char-to have accrued to him, in consequence of three of his slaves having been taken, about the 1st of May, 1831, from-Kentucky, near Louisville, where he resided, and carried, without his consent, as passengers on board of the said boat, to Cincinnati, whence they had disappeared and gone, as was presumed, to Canada.

Lenox, one of…