Bright v. Wagle

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court..

Bright, the son-in-law of Taylor, received from him, on loan, a negro boy, and after remaining m possession of him, for more than five years, on the 20th of December, 1830, made a contract with Wagle, and executed the following writing:—

“ Know all men by these1 presents, that I, Jacob “ Bright, of the county of Rockcastle, state of Kentucky, “ hath this day bargained and sold unto Isaac T. Wa- “• gle, of the county aforesaid, one negro boy named “ Daniel, for, and- in consideration of the sum of one “ hundred and fifty dollars; the receipt is…