Black v. Meaux
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Assumpsit. From the Circuit Court for Mercer Countt. A colored man who was emancipated by the last will of his master, remained with and labored for the defendant, during the period of a controversy as to the validity of the will.
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Assumpsit. From the Circuit Court for Mercer Countt. A colored man who was emancipated by the last will of his master, remained with and labored for the defendant, during the period of a controversy as to the validity of the will. After the will was established he sued the def’t for the value of his labor, and proved the above facts, and that defendant bad said— tho’ not to the plaintiff—that, if the will was established, he would pay him for his services: as there was a moral obligation on def’t to pay the plaintiff for Valuable services, and the jury might infer from the evidence that there…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Robertson
The County Court of Mercer having, in 1828, rejected a paper purporting to be the last will of John Meaux,. emancipating about sixty slaves—this Court reversed the order1, admitted the paper to record here, as the true last will of said Meaux, and directed the County Court also, to i-ecord it.
Humphrey Black, one of the persons who had been thus emancipated, having lived with John Woodson Meaux, and worked for him from the time of the testa-, tor’s death to. that of the decision upon the will by this Courts—sued him, in an action of assumpsit, for compensation for his services; and, having, on…
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