Case Name: LEMON v. BACON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1834-05
Citations: 15 F. Cas. 312
Docket Number: 
Parties: LEMON v. BACON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 15
Pages: 312–312

Head Matter:
Case No. 8,241.
LEMON v. BACON.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 466.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
May Term, 1834.
Evidence — Documents—Record Copt.
An absolute deed of goods and chattels need not be recorded, and a record copy is not evidence.
[See Bacon v. Bancroft, Case No. 714; Barger v. Miller, Id. 979.]
[Action for freedom by Kitty Lemon, a ne-gress, against Ebenezer Bacon.)
Mr. Key and Mr. Hodgson, for plaintiff,
offered in evidence the record of a deed of personal property.
Mr. Taylor, for defendant,
objected that a record copy of an absolute deed of goods and chattels, for valuable consideration, need not be recorded, and derives no validity therefrom; and a record copy is not evidence. And such was the opinion of the COURT (nem. con.)

Opinion:
(See statute of frauds of Virginia [1 Rev. Code, 1802] p. 16.)