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  "id": 11275184,
  "name": "Walker vs. Mebane and Rainey",
  "name_abbreviation": "Walker v. Mebane",
  "decision_date": "1805-06",
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  "first_page": "41",
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      "cite": "5 N.C. 41"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [
      "Sail \u2014 Judge\u2014Contra."
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    "parties": [
      "Walker vs. Mebane and Rainey"
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "By\nMacay, Taylor and Locke \u2014Judge\nare of opinion that the action will lie in the name of the husband alone, and that the name of the Wife need not bo joined.\nSail \u2014 Judge\u2014Contra.",
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        "author": "Macay, Taylor and Locke \u2014Judge"
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    "head_matter": "Walker vs. Mebane and Rainey\nfrom Hillsborough.\nA. gave a ne gro slave to his niece B. and agreed to keep the slave at his own expense during liis life. Before A\u2019s death* B. intermarried with C. wlio after A\u2019s death bro\u2019fc an action of' detinue fo& the slave in his own name. The possession of the slave having vested in B. by the gift, and A. having held her during his life for ,the use ofB. (lean maintain the action in hi\u00e1 own n\u00edun\u00e9e\nThis was an action of detinue for a negro gif] slave j and upon the trial it appeared that Wiliiaiii Mebane gave to his niece, Jennet Graham,, the negro slave in question when she was a small girl, and not wishing to sepe-rato her from her parents (ttiring his life, he agreed with bis niece to keep the negro girl at his own expense during his life. She remained with him accordingly. Before his death, his niece jennet Graham intermarried with the plaintiff, John Walker, who, after the death of William Mebane, brought this suit against the defendants Mebane \u25a0 and Rainey, who as executors of said William Mebaiie\u2019s will had taken the negro girl into their possession. A question arose upon the trial, and was sent to this court for the opinion of the Judges, \u00ab Whether the plaintiff could maintain this action in his own name, and whether it ought not to have been brought in the names of himself and his wife Jennet ?\u201d"
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