Case ID: nc_6/html/0054-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Williams v. Ambrose Jones.
    From Pitt.
    A. gave liis bond for the hire of a slave for one year. By the terms of the hiring he was not to employ the slave on water. He, however, did employ the slave on water, and the slave was drowned. He was Sued for this breach of the terms of hiring, and the value of the slave recovered against him. In an action on his bond for the hire, judgment given for the whole amount. The hiring shall not be apportioned, because of his breach of promise.
    This was an action of debt on a bond given for th© hire of a negro slave. - By the terms of the hiring, the Defendant was not permitted to employ the slave on water during the time for which he was hired : but he, in violation of these'terms, employed the slave on Water, and the slave was drowned. For this he was sued, and a verdict given for the value of the slave ; and now being sued upon his bond for the hire, a question arose, whether the hire should be apportioned, and the Defendant be charg’ed only for the time the slave lived.
   By the Court.

The Defendant having violated the contract of hiring, must abide by the consequences. He ought not to be relieved from the payment of his bond, because he has thought proper to do an improper act.