Case ID: tenn_12/html/0176-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Green, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Peters vs. Chares.
    The 'atter c'aase the third section of the act of 1801, cb. 25, only applies as between the loanor and loanee; therefore, five years possession of a slave which is not declared by will or by writing duly registered, although a bona fide loan, vests the property, as to creditors, with the loanee.
    
      Webber and Craighead, for plaintiff in error.
    
      R. C. Foster, for defendant.
   Green, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

The latter clause of the 3d section of the act of 1801, ch. 25, declaring valid all loans bona fide made, &c. &c. must he taken as applying only as between the persons receiving and making a loan of property. Any other construction would make this provision inconsistent with' the plain meaning of the latter clause of the second section of the same act. The negroes in question were in the possession of Daniel Brown more than five years before the boy Robert was levied on. The loan was not declared by will, or by deed in writing proved and recorded. As to this creditor, the property was with the possession.— Independently of this question, the jury were justified from the evidence, to find the verdict they rendered in this cause.

Judgment affirmed.