Davenport v. Gentry's Administrator

Judge Guau am

delivered, the opinion of the Court.

The facts in this case, deducible from the admissions of the parties, and the evidence, ai’e that certain negroes, claiming to be free, procured the services of Gentry to aid them in the assertion of their claim, in which they were successful. For Gentry’s services, and for ■some expenses to which he had been put in the prosecution of their suits, they promised to serve him five years. On the 12th of April, 1837, (after the negroes had been declared free by the judgment of the Court,) Gentry sold to Davenport six of them for five years, for the…