Case ID: mart-os_2/html/0154-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WATKINS vs. McDONOUGH.
    Parol evi-vidence, of warranty in the sale of a slave, mad-missible.
    Suit on a warranty for the soundness of a negro sold by the defendant. The answer denied all the allegation in the petition.
    Hatkins, for the plaintiff,
    offered a witness to prove the sale.
    Morse, for the defendant.
    The evidence is in. admissible. The Civil code provides that every covenant, tending to dispose, by a gratuitous or incumbered title (untitre gratuit ou onéreux) of any immoveable property or slaves in this territory, must be reduced to writing, and in case the existence of such a covenant should be denied, no tarol evidence shall be admitted to prove it. Art, 241, p. 310.
   Witness rejected.