Wilson v. Shackleford
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an appeal from the Chancery Court of Richmond. Wilson filed his bill, stating that in 1821, he purchased of Shackleford a negro woman and tnree children, for which he executed his bond payable six months after date, for $700 : that the complain ant believed, from the statements and representations of the defendant, that the woman was sound and healthy, and gave him a sound price: that a few days (perhaps the next day) after she came into the possession of your…
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This was an appeal from the Chancery Court of Richmond. Wilson filed his bill, stating that in 1821, he purchased of Shackleford a negro woman and tnree children, for which he executed his bond payable six months after date, for $700 : that the complain ant believed, from the statements and representations of the defendant, that the woman was sound and healthy, and gave him a sound price: that a few days (perhaps the next day) after she came into the possession of your complainant, he disposed of her to one John Brown, who very shortly thereafter discovered that she was diseased, and returned…
1Opinion of the Court
January 28.
JUDGE GREEN
delivered his opinion, in which the other Judges concurred.
The only-ground upon which the appellant can claim relief, is, that the slave which he purchased from the appellee was, at the time of the purchase, affected by a disease which finally proved fatal, but which was not known or suspected by the vendor, at the time of the sale. The charge in the hill, that Shackleford, after the woman was discovered to be diseased, promised to do what was right, is denied by the answer, and not proved Of the two witnesses who speak Upon this subject, in answer to leading questions…
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