Case ID: dc_2/html/0313-03.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Richard M. Scott v. W. Bartleman.
    If I hire a slave for a year, and he he arrested for theft at any time during the year, and imprisoned therefor during the residue of the term for which I have hired him, I must pay the stipulated hire, and suffer the loss of service.
    Assumpsit, for $36, for one year’s hire of a negro woman, the slave of the plaintiff, hired by the defendant for a year. Within ten days after hiring, she was arrested and imprisoned upon a warrant for theft, and kept in custody the residue of the year.
    
      Mr. Swann and Mr. Fendatt, for the plaintiff.
    
      Mr. Taylor, for the defendant.
   The Court

(Thruston, J., absent,)

instructed the jury, that the loss of time and service must fall on the defendant.