Offutt v. Twyman

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is a suit brought by Offutt, against Twyman, on a covenant of warranty of soundness of a slave, sold by the latter to the former.

On the trial, Hilery Offutt was introduced by the plaintiff, by whom he offered to prove the unsoundness of the slave. He was objected to by the counsel for the defendant, on the score of interest, and Samuel Carson introduced as a witness to prove his interest; who stated that, Hilery Offutt and the plaintiff both acknowledged to him, that Hilery was interested in the profits, of a lot of slaves carried to the…