Underwood v. Lacapère

The main question presented by this appeal is, whether Mrs. Bourgeois is entitled to any money judgment against her warrantor, White, on account of her slave boy, William, her vendee having been evicted, and having obtained judgment against her for his estimated value at the time she sold him.

When White sold the boy to Mrs. Bourgeois he was an infant but six weeks old, and was sold together with his mother Peggy for the sum of eight hundred dollars. But the evidence shows that the child -was of no appreciable value at that age, aud, instead of enhancing, really diminished the then value of…