Denton v. Murdock

This suit is instituted to recover the price of a slave named John, sold to the plaintiff by the defendant, on the 30th of December, 1836, together with charges for loss of service, physician’s bills, expenses, and damages on account of the slave being afflicted with a redhibitory disease. The answer is a general denial. The cause, it is said in the judgment of the court, was tried by a jury, and the verdict is recited, but the record does not inform us who composed it. Verdict and judgment were given for the plaintiff for $1200, the value of the slave, and *128$242 50 for expenses incurred, from…