Case Name: SCOTT v. BARTLEMAN
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1822-05
Citations: 21 F. Cas. 813
Docket Number: 
Parties: SCOTT v. BARTLEMAN.
Judges: (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 21
Pages: 813–813

Head Matter:
Case No. 12,624.
SCOTT v. BARTLEMAN.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 313.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
May Term, 1822.
Contracts — Hiring Slaves — Loss by Arrest.
If I hire a slave for a year, and he be 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 [Richard M. Scott], hired by the defendant [W. Bartleman] for a year. Within ten days after hiring, she was arrested and imprisoned upon a warrant for theft, and kept in custody the rest of the year.
Mr. Swann and Mr. Fendall, for plaintiff.
Mr. Taylor, for defendant.

Opinion:
THE COURT
(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
instructed the jury that the loss of
time and service must fall on the defendant.