Case ID: nc_3/html/0154-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Hall, Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Robinson's administrators vs. James Devone.
    
    npHIS was an action to recover a Negro named Peter, who bad been sent to the house of tbe defendant, in the year 1783 or 1784, some two or three years after the marriage of Devon© with the daughter of the intestate, where he has ever since continued.
   Hall, Judge,

refused to admit evidence of the intestate’s declarations that he had not given the Negro, made in 1796 ; saying, after declarations of the party shall not be taken to explain his former transactions.