Garth's Executors v. Barksdale
This text of 5 Munf. 101 (Garth's Executors v. Barksdale) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Virginia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
March 7th, 1816, the president pronounced the opinion of this court.
“ The court is of opinion that the instruction of the supe- “ rior court is erroneous in this, that the five years possession “ of the negroes by Douglas Barksdale, if proved, vested a “ title in him which enured in favour of his creditors, notwith- “ standing he might thereafter have returned the same to the “ plaintiff from whom lie had derived them. — The judgment “ is therefore reversed, the cause remanded, for a new trial to “ he had therein, on which no such instruction is to be given, “ but one, if required, correspondent with this decision.
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