Lanier v. . Auld

From Fayetteville. This is to certify that I have sold a negro man by the name of Jim for the sum of £ 160 in hand paid by Isaac Lanier; and I doth warrant the aforesaid slave Jim to be sound and healthy, not over twenty-five years of age. Given under my hand, 12 July, 1796. JOHN AULD.

Teste: FANNY DICKSON.

The negro was delivered to Lanier, and Auld shortly afterwards dying intestate, Harrington obtained letters of administration (139) on his estate. The negro Jim at the time of the sale, and long before, was a freeman and not a slave. Lanier brought an action of assumpsit against Auld's…