Satterfield v. . Smith

The action was for a breach of a contract for hiring. One of the terms of which was (as the plaintifF alleged,) that “the negro should not be employed at a fishery or sent by water.”

The plaintifF read in evidence a paper writing, purporting to contain the terms of hiring, one of which was, that the negro should not be employed at a fishery or sent by water, and proved by several witnesses that the paper was read aloud by the crier, before the hiring commenced.

The defendant called several witnesses, who swore that no such paper was read in their hearing, and that the crier, just as the bidding…