Gambling v. Read
Tennessee Supreme Court
About the 24th of April, 1837, Gambling sold Read, Hannah, a female slave for $1200, made him a bill of sale of her, and delivered her into his possession. For 800 dollars of the purchase money, Read gave Gambling his note payable on the 1st of July, 1837, and to secure its payment gave him a bill of sale of another négro woman Dilcey and her child, Henry, conditioned that if Read paid the 800 dollars when due, the bill bf sale should be void.
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About the 24th of April, 1837, Gambling sold Read, Hannah, a female slave for $1200, made him a bill of sale of her, and delivered her into his possession. For 800 dollars of the purchase money, Read gave Gambling his note payable on the 1st of July, 1837, and to secure its payment gave him a bill of sale of another négro woman Dilcey and her child, Henry, conditioned that if Read paid the 800 dollars when due, the bill bf sale should be void. The remaining 400 dollars were secured by á note, executed by Read and another as his surety, payable by the 1st of July, 1837. Hannah had a young…
1Opinion of the CourtTurley, J.
In this casp, the proof shows satisfactorily, that Jesse Gambling, the complainant, sometime about the 24th of April, 1837, sold to John Read, one of the defendants, the negro child, Marcus, the subject of controversy, for the sum of 150 dollars, to be paid on the 25th of December foliowing, and retained the right and title in himself as security for the payment of the purchase money; that, at the same time, lie sold also to said defendant, negro woman Hannah, the mother of the child, and permitted the possession of the child, it being but three months old, to be taken by the defendant…
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