Case ID: johns_1/html/0508-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Gurnee against Dessies.
    A slílVC í!iÍ61* he hits obtained his freedom, is a competentw tness which may"”* hityc happened wiiue he ivas a slave.
    ON the return to the certiorari in this cause, the only J J error assigned was, that the justice had refused to admit the evidence of a free black man, as to facts which took _ ’ ■ ■ ■ 1 placo while he was a slave.
    Fhe cause was submitted without argument,
   Per curiam.

A free black man is a competent witness 1 e to prove facts which may have happened while he , was a slave. The judgment belo w mustbe reversed.

Judgment reversed.