Coulter v. Cresswell

By the court:

Preston, J.

This is a redhibitory action, commenced against the estate of Cresswell, for the price of a slave sold by the deceased to the plaintiff, and damages.

The slave, with two children, was sold by Cresswell to the plaintiff, on the 17th of March, 1851, for six hundred dollars. She was fully guaranteed against the maladies prescribed against by law. Immediately after the sale, she was taken on board a steamboat, and conveyed to Union county, in the State of Arkansas, where the plaintiff resided. She died eleven days after the sale, of a disease, as the plaintiff alleges,…