Bach v. Barrett

The judgment of the court was pronounced -by

King, J.*

This is a redhibitory action instituted to recover the price of a slave, who the defendant alleges was affected, at the -time he purchased him of the defendant, with an incurable disease. A judgment was rendered in the court below in favor of the defendant, and the plaintiff has appealed.

The evidence does not in our opinion fix with sufficient certainty the date when the complaint of which the slave died commenced to authorise a recoyery. The plaintiff purchased the slave on the 30th of December, 1336. Between the 5th and 10th of January…