North Carolina, Supreme Court, Raleigh : Dowd v Davis, December 1833.
The plaintiff Dowd's bill alleged that Davis was harbouring a mixed-race woman, Lydia Burnet, who had been bound to him, with four others, by the county court and who had escaped from his service. He gave in evidence the bill of indenture. The judge ruled that the bill was sufficiently defectiv...
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