2 Yeates 449
Decided May 15, 1799
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1799-05-15
Homine replegiando. Plea property. It was admitted on trial, by both parties, that the plaintiff was born a slave in Maryland, and was brought from thence in the month of October 1782, into Westmoreland county, by the defendant his then master, who before the 23d September 1780, was not an inhabitant of Westmoreland or Washington counties ; and that the plaintiff was registered in the office of the clerk of the peace of Westmoreland county, as a slave on the 30th Debomber…
Decided 1799-05-15
¶1The facts admitted will not bear an argument. The defendant was not an inhabitant of Westmoreland county before the 23d September 1780, and therefore does not come within the words or meaning of the act of 13th April 1782. Neither he nor the negro wore within the state at that timo. In a much stronger case on a habeas corpus in Washington county against Aberilla Blackmore, the court liberated two negro women.
¶2Verdict joro quer..