Legal Opinion
Buckner v. Street
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Arkansas
Decided July 1, 1871Published
[In bankruptcy. Henry S. Buckner against W. B. Street, assignee of Walter Sessions, a bankrupt.]
1Opinion of the Court
CALDWELL, District Judge.
In- Osborn v. Nicholson [Case No. 10,595], this court held that slave contracts derived all their obligation from the constitution and laws of the states in which they were made; that the only sanction or validity they had was by virtue of these laws; that the common law would not afford a remedy on such contracts, and that the abolishment of slavery by the thirteenth article of amendment of the constitution of the United States had the effect to repeal these laws, and that the repeal left the holders of such contracts without a remedy. The soundness of - this…
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