Crocker v. Mann

Crocker brought an action of replevin against Mann for taking a negro. The declaration states, that on a certain day the plaintiff was possessed of the slave in the county of Marion, and that afterwards, on that day, in the county of Marion, (on the public highway leading from Palmyra to Hannibal, about five miles from Palmyra,) the defendant Mann, took the said slave and unjustly detains the same. The defendant pleaded non cepit, and property in himself, &c.

*332The evidence on the part of the plaintiff was, that he purchased the slave at a Constable’s sale, on execution, and judgment of some…