Primos Garner v. Horatio R. Marryman. Jury Instructions Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone Kaci L. Nash Laura K. Weakly University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Maryland National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Jury Instructions Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 828, Folder 329 Case Papers Jury Instructions Civil Petition for Freedom March 1857 Mills, William Alexandria (Va.) Washington (D.C.) Garner, Primos Marryman, Horatio R. United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids; added William Mills to people reviewed; edited Encoded and transcribed

If the Jury shall find from the whole evidence that Wm Mills had was in had possession of the petitioner claiming him as his property, when he sold him to the defendant then they should find of for the defendant without they shall further find unless they find, as in the granted, on the prayer

If the Jury believe from said evidence that Petitioner has been living in said City of Washington Since 1840 as a free man and doing and performing the Acts of a free-man and also in Alexandria for Some five, or ten years previous to 1840 with the knowledge and assent of Defendant. And those under whom he claims, it is Competent for the Jury to infer that there was a valid Deed of Manumission in his favor.

given by the Court.