Irons v. Reynolds
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of "Washington. Tried before the Hon. Andrew B. Moore. Henry L. Reynolds, the appellee, commenced a suit against James Irons by original attachment, which was levied on a slave woman named Patsey, to whom a claim was interposed by Mrs. Catherine Irons, the appellant, who is the wife of the defendant in attachment.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of "Washington. Tried before the Hon. Andrew B. Moore. Henry L. Reynolds, the appellee, commenced a suit against James Irons by original attachment, which was levied on a slave woman named Patsey, to whom a claim was interposed by Mrs. Catherine Irons, the appellant, who is the wife of the defendant in attachment. On the trial of the right of property, at the March term, 1855, the following bill of exceptions was sealed, at the instance of the claimant. “ This was a case of original attachment, which issued in September, 1854, at the suit of the plaintiff,…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, C. J.
Without stopping to inquire whether the points attempted to be raised upon the bill of exceptions are properly raised by it, it is sufficient to observe, that the record presents the anomalous case of a proceeding by a married woman, inker own name, in a court of law, to try the right to property in a slave, which her husband purchased and took a bill of sale for in his name, but with money which was the proceeds of property secured by an antenuptial contract entered into between them in the State of Ohio; the husband having delivered the slave to his wife, and having recognized her right to…
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