Brummel v. Stockton

The only question which need to be considered in this case, is whether the fact that an absolute bill of sale of a slave shows on its face, that the vendor has not delivered the possession to the vendee, but retains it himself, under a covenant to deliver the slave at a future day, is sufficient to bring the case within any exception to the general rule, that, unless the possession of movable property accompany and follow an absolute sale of it, the sale is fraudulent per se, and void as to any bona fide creditor of the vendor.

The Circuit Court decided, in effect, that it was not, and we…