Case Name: The State against John B. Oliver and his Wife
Court: Supreme Court of New Jersey
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1787-09
Citations: 1 N.J. (Manumission) 18
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State against John B. Oliver and his Wife.
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: 18–18

Head Matter:
September Term, 1787.
The State against John B. Oliver and his Wife.
On Habeas Corpus of Negro Kate.
Note, The Counfelfor the Defendants in this Cafe, contended that they ought not to be compelled to anfwer the Allegation of Abufe, becaufe, as ike Habeas Corpus, was in common form to bring the Body, and no Caufe in particular allsdged, they could not be prefumed to come prepared to anfwer any thing but the illegal Detainer of the Negro as a Slave, and infiftcd that they ought not to be compelled to an-fwer this until a fu[fui, nt Proje cut or fiould he indorfed on. the Habeas Corpus, and Security given for the Cojis .• All, this the Com t ver ruled. The Counfcl for the Defendants undertook that the IS ¾, o fboifd not be ill-treated, and the difpute was afterwards fettled and the Court heard nothing further of th> Affair>
Tire Attorney General and Eliiha Boudinot for State-
Elias Boudinot and Aaron Ogden for Defendants.

Opinion:
THE Court after hearing the Arguments of Counfel, are of Opinion, that the faid John B. Oliver enter into Recognizance in Five Hundred Pounds, conditioned that he do not fend or fuffer to be fent, the Negro Kate mentioned in the laid Habeas Corpus, out of this State, till the Court {hall take further Order therein at the next Term. Recognizance entered into accordingly by the laid John B. Oliver.