This case is about slaves or slavery.
Year: | 1850 |
Citation: | 3 Fla. 298 |
Jurisdiction: | Supreme Court of FL |
People: | Sue, Phoebe, Peter, Flora, Cornelia |
Short Summary: | After another party possessed them for more than five years. Ruling that adverse possession does not apply "where several slaves belong to several persons of the same family." In that case, the posession is in all the members |
Law type: | Recovery of a Slave |
Full name: | John A. Summerall, Plaintiff in Error, vs. Daniel Thoms and Wife, Defendants in Error |
Court: | Florida Supreme Court |