Young v. Lewis
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. The appellant brought his suit to recover from the appellee the value of a negro girl, a slave, alleged to have "been the property of the appellant, and to "have died of the cholera in the possession of tlie appellee, to whom she had been hired by the appellant.
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Appeal from Bexar. The appellant brought his suit to recover from the appellee the value of a negro girl, a slave, alleged to have "been the property of the appellant, and to "have died of the cholera in the possession of tlie appellee, to whom she had been hired by the appellant. Iu the petition it was stated that in the month of March, A. D. 1S49, petitioner hired to the said Nathaniel Lewis a negro woman, a slave, by the month, of 1he value of five hundred dollars; that at "tlie expiration of the said month and before the cholera broke out in the city of San Antonio where the said Lewis…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
The first question presented for our consideration is as to the meaning of the contract set out in the petition and its legal effect. Prom (he language employed in stating it we can entertain no doubt that it was a contract from mouth to month,'so long as it should be continued, and that each party would have a right'to termínale it at t lie expiration of a month; the bailor could demand his properly at such periods, or the bailee could surrender it up; but that after another month liad commenced to run neither the one nor the other could terminate it without the consent of the other until…
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