30 N.C. 371 | N.C. | 1848
(372) This was an action of trover brought by the plaintiffs against James M. Patterson and three other defendants, to recover damages for the conversion by them of several slaves. The defendant pleaded severally the general issue, not guilty, and upon the trial of the issues in the Superior Court of Law, at Guilford, on the Spring Circuit of 1848, the jury found the defendants "severally guilty," and assessed the plaintiff's damages to $2,048.60, and judgment was rendered that the plaintiffs recover, etc. From this judgment the defendant Patterson, alone, appealed to the Superior Court, where the counsel for the plaintiff moved to dismiss the appeal for the reason that the other defendants had not joined in it.
Upon the direct authority of Hicks v. Gilliam,
PER CURIAM. The appeal dismissed.
Cited: Jackson v. Hampton,
(374)