Simmons v. Gird
This text of 22 F. Cas. 157 (Simmons v. Gird) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The plaintiff was a slave, brought into Alexandria, whence he sailed on a voyage, and returned to Alexandria, but was not “ kept therein one whole year together, or so long,, at different times, as amounted to one year,” unless the time of his sailing on the voyage should be included.
This being stated in a special verdict, the Court rendered judgment for the defendant.
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