Bishop v. Duncan

A slave supposed to be the property of James Duncan, havmg been sold m satisfaction of an execution which had been issued against him in favor of Bishop, Coleman Duncan, who claimed the slave in virtue of some alleged transfer from James Duncan, afterwards sued Bishop, in . . 17 trespass, for the sale, and recovered two hundred and seventy seven dollars in damages.

Bishop then filed a bill in chancery for a new trial, alleging that, since the trial, he had discovered that he could prove by several persons, that both James and Coleman Duncan had admitted, sometime prior to the trial, that the…