State v. Judge of the Fifth District Court ex rel. Perkins

It appears by the answer of the Judge of the Fifth District Court to the rule issued in' this case, that “ Pmdcins instituted in that court, the 1st of May, 1857, his redhibitory action against Shelton to recover the price of a female slave named Jane, which the former purchased of the latter on the 5th of March, 1857, and guaranteed against the vices and maladies prescribed by law. In his petition, he charges that the slave was afflicted with a chronic disease of the heart and lungs, and the disease called Tonsils, to such an extent as to render her services useless to him. On the 16th May,…