21 N.J.L. 699
Decided January 15, 1848
Supreme Court of New Jersey · decided 1848-01-15
To a writ of habeas corpus allowed at the bar of the Supreme Court, commanding Post, the defendant, to bring up the bodies of a colored man named William and of a colored woman named Flora, whom ho illegally detained. Post returned that he held them as Slaves by virtue of the laws of New Jersey, under a bill of sale.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1988
1 state decisions
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Decided 1848-01-15
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¶1The cause was argued by W. Halsted, for plaintiff in error, no one appearing for defendant.
¶2*700The court affirmed the judgment below by the following vote:
¶3For Affirmance — Green, (C. J.) Robertson,Speer, Porter, Schenck, Spencer, and Whitehead — 7.
¶4For Reversal — The Chancellor — 1.
¶5Cited in State v. Baird, 4 C. E. Green 488.