Linton v. Walker
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Tallahassee. On the 2d day of April, 1856, the appellees, the children of Minor Walker, who are minors, instituted an action of assumpsit in Jefferson Circuit Court against the appellant, to recover the hires of fifteen negro slaves for five years, from 1850 to 1855. The appellant pleaded: 1st. Won assumpsit.- 2d. Payment to the father of the plaintiffs, as natural guardian, of a large sum in full satisfaction.
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This case was decided at Tallahassee. On the 2d day of April, 1856, the appellees, the children of Minor Walker, who are minors, instituted an action of assumpsit in Jefferson Circuit Court against the appellant, to recover the hires of fifteen negro slaves for five years, from 1850 to 1855. The appellant pleaded: 1st. Won assumpsit.- 2d. Payment to the father of the plaintiffs, as natural guardian, of a large sum in full satisfaction. The plaintiffs joined issue on the first and demurred to the second pleaed, which demurrer was sustained by the' Court. Defendant then pleaded payment…
1Opinion of the Court
BALTZELL, C. J
This is a suit of the infant children and heirs of the lato Mrs. Minor Walker, claiming of the appellant, Linton, the hire of fifteen slaves which they own through a legacy from their grandfather, Jacqueline Peterson, who, in the year 1824, made his will in Hancock, Georgia, giving this and other property to his daughter Martha, their mother, and .after her death to her children. Minor Walker intermarried with her, and by this means became possessed in 1837 of her property. On the first of January, 1850, he hired the negroes to Linton for a term of five years, and has received…
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