Case Name: Robinson's administrators vs. James Devone
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1801-11
Citations: 2 Hayw. 154
Docket Number: 
Parties: Robinson's administrators vs. James Devone.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 154–154

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.