Lobdell v. Burke

This suit is brought to obtain a diminution of the price paid for a gang of thirty negroes, purchased from the defendant, on the ground that the negroes do not answer the description given of them in the act of sale, the adults in general being much older, and the children much younger than they were represented to be. The petition sets forth in detail, this difference of age in a number of the slaves, and affixes to each of them the *94diminution of price, which should be made in consequence thereof. It, moreover, claims the value of the slave Jefferson, who, although mentioned in the sale, and…