Sawyer v. Boyle
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Fayette. Tried below before the Hon. James H. Bell. The plaintiffs in error claimed and gave bond to try the right to a boy slave Frank, twelve years of age, levied on as the property of Nathaniel Trammell, at the suit of the defendant in error.
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Error from Fayette. Tried below before the Hon. James H. Bell. The plaintiffs in error claimed and gave bond to try the right to a boy slave Frank, twelve years of age, levied on as the property of Nathaniel Trammell, at the suit of the defendant in error. The slave was taken in December, 1853, and the claim was made on the 14th of January, 1854. The claimants gave in evidence a transcript from the Probate Court of Chicot county, Arkansas, in the matter of the succession of Britton Ward : entry showing petition of Stokely Ward, administrator of Britton Ward, in July, 1842, representing that…
1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, J.
The property in controversy certainly belonged to B. Ward before his death in the State of Arkansas. It was administered upon there by his son, S. Ward, as a part of his estate, and upon a distribution thereof, it was received from the administrator by Nathaniel Trammell, and, in that .‘State and in this, retained by him from that time, which was In 1842, up to the time of the levy of Boyle’s executions, in December, 1858.
The capacity in which Trammell received it is one of the principal matters in dispute. Appellants contend that he re*37ceived it as their property and as their natural…
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