Case ID: mart-ns_5/html/0145-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Porter, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STAFFORD vs. STAFFORD.
    
    Appeal from the court of the sixth district.
    
      Thomas for the plaintiff, Baldwin for the defendant.
    The defendant cannot resist the plaintiff's claim for his the plaintiff's negro,and the hire, on the ground that there was no demand.
   Porter, J.

delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff claims from the defendant a negro slave, and hire for the time he has been in his possession. The answer neither admits or denies the allegations in the petition, but avers, that no demand has ever been made for the slave and that if he be on the plantation of the defendant, it is without his consent, and that the plaintiff might have taken him away.

The evidence fully sustains the allegations of the petition, and justifies the verdict given in the court below for the slave and the hire. The judgment rendered thereon was correct, and it is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that it be affirmed with costs.