This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1857 |
| Citation: | 37 Tenn. 261 |
| Jurisdiction: | Tennessee |
| People: | |
| Short Summary: | Action of trover for wrongful conversion of a hired slave by the ship captain transporting the slave to hire, a trip on which the slave killed himself |
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| Full name: | William Scruggs vs. Ammon L. Davis |
| Court: | Tennessee Supreme Court |