U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia March 15, 1835 (Lowe v. Stockton)

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instructed the jury, as in Gookenderfer,s case, at December term, 1827, (3 Cranch, C. C. 257,) that if they believe, from the evidence, that the slaves of the plaintiff were taken away, without her consent, in the stage-coach of the defendants, and that the agent of the defendants, by using due and reasonable diligence, could have prevented their being so taken away, and that the said