Ewing v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL PROM CLAY CIRCUIT COURT. Tlic record in. this cause presents the following material fact. In September, 1848, the appellant was the owner of a slayo named Anderson, and the appel-lee was the owner of a slave named Henry. Anderson was by law subject to work on a certain road district in Olay county, of which one Edward M. Samuel was overseer.
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APPEAL PROM CLAY CIRCUIT COURT. Tlic record in. this cause presents the following material fact. In September, 1848, the appellant was the owner of a slayo named Anderson, and the appel-lee was the owner of a slave named Henry. Anderson was by law subject to work on a certain road district in Olay county, of which one Edward M. Samuel was overseer. The said overseer had notified the appellant tQ send his said slave to labor on said road, which he accordingly did, both on Friday and Saturday. The appellant, being over forty-five years of age, was not subject to work on roads, and was not…
1Opinion of the Court
hrAPTON, J.
This action was brought to recover the value of the plaintiff’s slave, who had been killed by a slave of the defendant’s. The declaration contains five counts. The first count is in trespass for assault and battery, and has no support in the facts proven on the trial. The other foiir counts are varied forms of the same charge, and the substance of the charge is, that the defendant was the owner of a slave, who had a ferocious, murderous and mischievous disposition — that this slave, when suffered to go at large, was in the habit of heating and wounding other slaves — that the…
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