Case Name: The State against Tobias Hendrickson
Court: Supreme Court of New Jersey
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1790-05
Citations: 1 N.J. (Manumission) 24
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State against Tobias Hendrickson.
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: 24–24

Head Matter:
May Term, 1790.
The State against Tobias Hendrickson.

Opinion:
Ck Habeas Corpus of Negro Jack claiming bis Freedom,
THE Court having coniklered this Cafe under all its Circumftances, and it appearing that John Coward the former Matter, under whom Tobias Hendrickfon claims Title to the Negro, antecedent to the Year 1785, a&ually entered into an Agreement with Jack for his Freedom, the Terms of which have been fully complied with ; The Court are therefore of Opinion, and do order, the faid Negro Jack to be liberated from the Cultody of the faid Tobias Hendrickfon — Rut as John Coward the: former Matter is not before the Court, and of Courfe not heard, and his Intereft may be materially concerned, this Judgment for the Liberation of the faid Jack is not to affect any prefent or future Claim of the faid John Coward.