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1 Va. 639

Williams v. Manuel

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided March 15, 1843

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1843-03-15

On the 19th of November 1839, a bill was presented to the judge of the circuit superior court of law and chancery for tbe county of Henrico and city of Richmond, in the name of Manuel sometimes called Manuel Dodson, setting forth, that be was late the slave and property of Elizabeth Magruder of Washington county in the district of Columbia, who, by her will bearing date the 7th of March 1827, and proved and recorded on the 13th of July 1827 in the orphans court of said…

Decided 1843-03-15

Baldwin, J.

¶1delivered the following as the resolution of the court:

¶2The court, without deciding what relief (if any) the appellee would be entitled to upon the case made by his bill, if sustained by sufficient proofs, is of opinion, that it does not appear from the evidence in the cause, that the contemplated removal by the appellant of the appellee beyond the limits of the commonwealth, was with intent to defeat the appellee’s right to freedom when the same shall accrue, or upon any claim to hold or sell him as a slave beyond that peiiod : The decree is therefore reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to dissolve the injunction, restore the appellee to the possession of the appellant or his agent, and, after disposing of the subject of hires, with the proper deductions for costs and charges, to dismiss the bill.

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