Carson v. Allen

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Allen sold Carson a negro woman and child for four hundred and twenty five dollars, to be paid by the acceptance of a bill, to be drawn in favor of Allen, on the firm of Carson, Wells and Griffin,at Natchez or NewOrleans,at four months; and was to execute a bill of sale for the slaves, *396with warranty of their soundness. Carson took the slaves home with him, and discovering, as he believed, that they were diseased, sent them to the farm of Allen, from whence he received them, and informed him that they were unsound, and that he would not accept the…