Westmoreland v. Dixon & Shelton

From the bill, answers, and testimony in this case, it appeared that the defendant, Shelton, was in partnership with the other defendant, Dixon. Being in Dinwiddie County, in the State of Virginia, with a drove of hogs belonging to the firm, on the 16th of Februaiy, 1813, he sold the balance of his hogs to one Whitehead, and received in part payment a negro fellow about 30 or 40 years of age, at the price of $295. Shelton, immediately after this purchase of the negro, set out upon his return to this State, and, after one day’s travel, sold the said negro to the complainant, Westmoreland, in…