Bennet v. Starnes

Dünbab, J.

Under an execution issued on a judgment obtained by the defendant Stiles against JEliza Anne Bennett, the Sheriff seized certain slaves, which he found in her possession. Shortly afterwards the present suit was instituted by Mrs. Bennett, as tutrix of her daughter by a former marriage, Oetavine Williamson, averring that the title to the slaves seized was in her said ■daughter, and praying that the seizure be set aside, and that the defendants in solido be adjudged to pay her, for the use of her daughter, five hundred dollars damages and hire for the negroes during their detention.…