Hancock v. Tucker
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Tampa. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Hillsborough county. The opinion of the Court contains a statement of the facts in the case, to whicíi reference is made.
1Opinion of the CourtBaltzell, C. J.
This is a suit instituted upon two promissory notes given for the purchase of a negro man slave. The defence was,
1st. That Hancock, who made the purchase, was induced to enter into and make the said promises through and by means of the fraud, covin and misrepresentation of the said Tucker and others in collusion with him.
2d, That the notes were given for a negro man named Gadsden, and that, at the time of the sale, the vendor *436fraudulently represented to the vendee that the said Gadsden was an able-bodied man, when, in fact, the said negro was then unsound, having a disease called dropsy, and…
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