Case Name: The State against Lewis Mc. Knight
Court: Supreme Court of New Jersey
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1782-11
Citations: 1 N.J. (Manumission) 11
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State against Lewis Mc. Knight.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey Relative to the Manumission of Negroes and Others Holden in Bondage
Volume: 1
Pages: 11–11

Head Matter:
November Term, 1782,. ■ :
The State against Lewis Mc. Knight.

Opinion:
On Habeas Corpus of Negro Cosfar Tite.
AGREEABLY to the Command of the within Writ, I have here in Court the Body of the within mentioned Caefar Tite, and do lav that the faid Negro Tite is my Property, being bought of Kenneth Hankinfon, Efquire, for valuable Conlideration, and he is not a free Man ; but I am willing and defirous to conteft that Property'' by a Jury of the Country, agreeably to the Laws of this State, and pray that it may not be taken from me without a Trial by Jury, &c.
LEWIS Mc.KNIGHT.