Singleton v. Carroll

Judge Buckner,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action of covenant prosecuted by Singleton against Carroll and Sayer, on a writing executed by them to him, bearing date 4th January 1828; by which they bound themselves to pay to him for the hire of a negro man, from that time Until Christmas, one hundred dollars, to furnish for said slave the usual summer clothing, and to deliver him with as good clothing as he then wore, to the order of Singleton, in Lexington, at the expiration of the time for which he had hired him.

The breaches assigned in the declaration are, the failure of…