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Georgia, Supreme Court, Savannah : Ingram v Mitchell, January 1860

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Georgia : Supreme Court, 1860.
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The bill was instituted by Ingram to compel Mitchell to account to him for the sale of a slave, Simon, whom he had placed in Mitchell's hands to sell. In 1856 Simon had been indicted for attempting to rape a white woman. Ingram, standing as security for Simon's appearance in court, entered into the agreement with Mitchell to sell Simon, under which if he sold him he should account to Ingram for [dollars] 1,200, and if he failed to sell him he should return him. Ingram's apparent motive for selling Simon was to sell his life, which was endangered by the charge against him. Mitchell executed notes for [dollars] 1,200 to Ingram on the assumption that he would sell, which he succeeded in doing. Mitchell prayed that the agreement made to screen Simon from trial was illegal and so could not be enforced against him for the payment of his note. The court found for Mitchell and Ingram appealed. The Supreme Court reversed the verdict, finding that Simon had been acquitted before he was sold, the woman herself and every body else being satisfied of his innocence, and that he was immediately repurchased by Ingram, with whom he had remained since. Justice Lumpkin observed that prompted by humanity, and from no mercenary motives, masters are sometimes induced to put their slaves out of the way to prevent them from becoming the victims of popular excitement, until the tempest of passion is past and reason has resumed her sway.
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Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the Georgia Archives.
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