Dyer v. . Rich

The affidavit made by Dyer, on which the certiorari was obtained, stated that he purchased from Rich a certain slave for the price of $450, in payment of which he endorsed a note of Robeson's to Rich for $650, the latter paying the excess by a note and some produce. That after the sale of the slave, the parties entered into a contract in writing, but without seal, that Dyer should convey the slave out of the State, and dispose of him in two months, which he avers he performed. That afterwards Rich sued him upon the agreement to Sampson County Court at May Sessions, 1815, which he was unable…