Thompson v. Wilmot

*422OPINION of the C^ourt, by

Ch. J. Bibb.

— In May 1805, Miss Ruth Wilmot exhibited her bill against Thomas A. Thompson, setting forth that in October 1790, she exchanged a slave named Will, of whom she was possessed in the state of Maryland, for a slave called Harry, the property of the said defend a»t, who was about to remove to Kentucky ; that one of the moving considerations in said exchange was the express stipulation on the part of said defendant, that he would manumit and emancipate said Will in seven years ; that the defendant on the day of the exchange made a memorandum of the said…