Tipton v. Wright

JUDGE HAEDIN

delivered the opinion oe the court.

The appellant sold a female slave named Jane to the appellee for four hundred dollars in 1860, and executed and delivered to him a bill of sale containing a warranty of the soundness of the slave. Subsequently the appellant removed from this state; and the slave proving to have been diseased, this suit in equity was brought by the appellee for the breach of warranty, and to attach in the hands of James Rankin a debt of three hundred dollars which he owed the appellant.

In the progress of this proceeding in rem the plaintiff filed, an amended…