Case Name: Thomas v. Jamesson
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-04
Citations: 1 Cranch 91
Docket Number: 
Parties: Thomas v. Jamesson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 91–91

Head Matter:
Thomas v. Jamesson.
A slave cannot be a witness if a free white man be a party.
Assault and battery. The plaintiff was a man of color. The defendant, a free white man, offered his slave as a witness under the Act of Assembly, Rev. Code, 289,§ 3; Old Acts of Assembly, p. 284.

Opinion:
The Court
refused to permit the slave to be sworn. See the Act of 1801, January 21st, § 4.