Case Name: Rench vs. Hile
Court: Provincial Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1766-10
Citations: 4 H. & McH. 495
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rench vs. Hile.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases argued and determined in the Provincial Court and Court of Appeals of the then province of Maryland, from the year 1700 [i.e. 1658] down to the [end of 1799]
Volume: 4
Pages: 495–495

Head Matter:
OCTOBER TERM, 1766.
Rench vs. Hile.
This was an action on the case for a deceit in the sale of a negro woman, slave, warranting her to be sound. Plea, “that he did not warrant the negro woman called, &c. to be sound and healthy, and without any infirmity, as the said John above against him hath complained,” &c» Issue joined.
Johnson and Hall, for the Plaintiff.
Jenings and Chase, for the Defendant.

Opinion:
It was contended by Chase, for the defendant, that warranty must he at the time of the sale or before, and not after — Ld. Ray. 1120. 2 Cro. 196. c. 31. Dyer 75. Bridgeman, 127. 2 Cro. 5. 386. 1 Rol. 33. 97. Salk. 210. Skin,. 104. As to visible infirmities — Fel. 114.2 Cro. 675. That to sell a thing, and not warrant it, the seller is not answerable, though the thing turns out not to be sound — , Bulst. 3. 95. 2 Cro. 4. 196. In 3. Wils. 40, is an action upon a warranty of a mare tó be sound, when she was lame, and a precedent of a declaration with seven counts. An action for money had and received is not a proper fiction to try a warranty — Cowp. 819.
The Plaintiff suffered a nonsuit.