Graham v. Kinder

Judge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Kinder, a boy of color, exhibited a bill in chancery, in which he alledged that his mother was a free woman of color, and he was born free: That Graham was the owner of an old black man named Ned, who was the husband of complainant’s mother;- and that in the year 1842 Graham- and his mothér, entered into a written contract by which the former sold Ned to the latter, and in consideration thereof the latter sold and transferred to the former, all her right to the complainant, and to another son by the name of Timothy, until they arrived at the age…