Mims v. Mitchell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Colorado County. Mr. Justice Wheeler delivered the opinion of the court, giving a full statement of the facts; Mr. Justice Lipscomb not sitting in the case.
1Opinion of the CourtWiieeleb, J.
This was a suit brought to the spring term, 1844, of the district court, to recover of the defendant the value and hire of a negro girl.
The petition contains the averments that the defendant hired of the plaintiff “ a negro woman named Mehala, between fifteen and sixteen years old, sound and well conditioned,” the property of the plaintiff; that the defendant was to pay the plaintiff for two months’ work of said Mehala, and at the end of that time to return her to the plaintiff, “ in like good condition;” and that the time of the commencement of the said hiring was the 28th day of August,…
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