Case Name: Negress Kitty Lemon v. Ebenezer Bacon
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1834-05
Citations: 4 Cranch 466
Docket Number: 
Parties: Negress Kitty Lemon v. Ebenezer Bacon.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 4
Pages: 466–466

Head Matter:
Negress Kitty Lemon v. Ebenezer Bacon.
An absolute deed of goods and chattels need not be recorded; and a record copy is not evidence.
Action for freedom.
Mr. Key and Mr. Hodgson, for the plaintiff,
offered in evidence the record of a deed of personal property.
Mr. Taylor, for the 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.

Opinion:
And such was the opinion of the Court (nem. con.)
(See statute of Frauds of Virginia, p. 16.)