Alford v. Hughes & Randolph

Büohanan, J.

Plaintiff sues for restitution of the price of a slave woman named Charlotte, who is alleged to have been afflicted with a redhibitory disease at the time of her sale by defendants to plaintiff. The petition also alleges that the disease was well known to defendants, who concealed it from plaintiff.

The defendants pleaded the general ilsue; and the cause was tried by a jury, who found a verdict for defendants.

The fact essential to the maintaining of this action, of the existence of the disease in the slave at the time of the sale, is not made out by the proof. The earliest evidence…