The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-02-17
RECOGNITION OF NORTHERN LAWS BY SOUTH
ERN COURTS

| We find the following among the decisions
of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, at its re-
cent term, as reported in the ~ o. Pieayune,
the decision at once recognising the constitu-
tionality and propriety of the legislation Of the
North, on the question Of slaves IN trGnSttu, OF
temporary residents:
Lucy Broton vs. Perafer +. Smiths B. Tay-
ior, trarrantor.
JUSTICE, Chief Justice This is an appeal
from judgment Of the Third District Court of
New Orleans, by which the plaintiff a negro
woman, and her two children, were decreed to
be free ltappeared that the plaintiff was born
slave, and in 1923 belonged to Elijah Mix,
and lived in his service in the District of Co
lumbia that some time in that year Mr. Mix
with his family and the plaintiff removed to
New York, and fixed his residence there and
that early in 1925 he removed back to George
town, and in 1929 again removed to New York,
during all which time the plaintiff lived in his
service; that in 1882 she was in the service of
Captain Wells, U. s. Army, in this city, as a
slave, who sold her to S. B. Taylor, from whom
Gen. Smith, the present owner, purchased her.
An instrument of indenture of apprentice
ship of Lucy Brown in favor of Elijah Mix, as
his servant and wating-maid until she should
attain the age of twenty-On years, executed
before the Mayor of Georgetown on the 9Th of
May 1923, and properly witnessed and signed
by Mix and the father Of Lucy was produced
in evidence
The law Of New York, in force at the time
of this change of residence, provided that if
any person held in slavery was taken to New
York to reside and continued to reside there
for more than nine months, such slave should
become free 1t was proved that the plaintiff
resided in New York more than one year.
Held, that under the state of facts presented,
the plaintiff must be regarded as having ac-
quired her freedom with the consent Of her
MASTER by her residence in New York, which
status she did not lose by subsequently being
taken back into slave territory.
FREE DELAWARE NEGRO IN STATE OF
SLAvERY.-The suit of free Delaware negro
will take place in the State of North Carolina,
in the month of November next, under the fol-
lowing circumstances William Tillison was
sold by order of the court of Kent county, for
some crime or misdeamor in 1870, for two
months aud one day He was bought by Jacob
r. Griffin. Mr.. Griffin sold him to somebody
however, nothing was heard Of him until it was
| found he was in the possession Of MIR. T. A.
Vestal, of Waynesburg North Carolina, who
| purchased him about eighteen months since
for $l,7OO. Tillison ran away from Mr.. YES
tai and was caughragain. Upon Mr. Vestal
asking him why he ran away, he insisted that
he was free, which led that gentleman to write
to Dover for the facts he found sure enough,
that it was az Tillison, whose name had been
changed to Tom Hyer, had stated-that he was
legally entitled to freedom. This negro for
the last twelve years has been unjustly held in
slavery. We ere informed by those who have
the best opportunities of knowing that at least
negro week is sold out of the State of Del
aware As the law forbids the sale of slaves
out Of the State, unless by an order from the
court and as orders from the court for such
sales do not reach a 1.-THE of that number, the
excess are either kidnapped or sold illegally
This information we do not get from an aboli-
ZIONIST but from gentleman who is slave
holder himself, and whose frequent visits to
slave prisons in Baltimore and other places
have given him the very best opportunities of
information. From all we have heard, we have
not the least doubt that great many slaves
who have the credit OF running away from this
State have been conveyed on the back track
of the underground acknowledging to the
South instead of the North.-Delatcare Repub-
hedn.