Pitts v. Lewis

By the court:

Rost, J.

The plaintiff sues for the resolution of a sale of slaves, which he alleges to have been a vente á remiré. She has made a tender of the price, and claims the slaves together with damages for the loss of their services.

The defendant, Martha C. Lewis, the wife of John L. Lewis, separated in property from him, alleges that the sale to her was absolute and unconditional, and that the slaves being at the time in her possession, under another title, the delivery followed the act of transfer. That after the sale her husband was prevailed upon to sign, on her part, a gratuitous…