Action brought by Pickett for the illegal transportation of a slave, Amanda, a good cook, washer, ironer, seamstress and housewoman, worth [dollars] 2,500.00, and worth for hire [dollars] 150.00 per annum. In 1860 she left Pickett on the Southwestern Railroad and was only returned a year later. One John V Price had initially pursued her to Macon on Pickett's behalf, which had cost him [dollars] 50. Price deposed that in appearance Amanda was as white as himself [..] and that no one who did not know her and her status would have suspected that she was a slave. She had been sold a ticket by the Railroad and had not been requested to show a permit to travel from her owner or overseer on the assumption that she was free. The jury found for Pickett to the amount of [dollars] 207 and the Railroad appealed. The Supreme Court upheld the verdict.
