STRADER ET AL. v. GRAHAM.


51 U.S. 82 (____)

10 How. 82

JACOB STRADER, JAMES GORMAN, AND JOHN ARMSTRONG, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Jones, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Crittenden, Attorney-General, for the defendants in error.


Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is brought here by writ of error directed to the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky.

The facts in the case, so far as they are material to the decision of this court, are briefly as follows. The defendant in error is a citizen of the State of Kentucky, and three negro men whom he claimed and held as his slaves were received on board the steamboat...

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