Overstreet v. Philips

Opinion of the Court.

THIS was a bill in chancery, filed by Philips and Thompson, to be released from a judgment which Overstreet had obtained against them, upon their note for four hundred dollars. The note, they allege, was given for the price of a negro woman and her child, sold by Overstreet to Philips. They charge that the negro woman, at the time of the sale, was diseased, and that Overstreet knew it, and fraudulently concealed it; that immediately after the purchase of the negroes, Philips took them to Natchez, for market, where he sold them to one Job Ruth, who discovered the woman to…