Case Name: Hobdy vs. Charles and James Egerton
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1799-03
Citations: 2 Hayw. 79
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hobdy vs. Charles and James Egerton.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 79–80

Head Matter:
Hobdy vs. Charles and James Egerton.
«TpHlS action was for the recovery of amale slave ; he had been left by the will of their father to the defendants, who were infants ; their elder brother brought the negro from South-Carolina and sold him to Hobdy, and then returned to South-Carolina, and lived near the defendants six or seven years after their arrival to full age, and they never questioned the sale nor inter- ruptedfhe plaintiff’s possession until soon after the death of th« elder, brother, when they got the negro into their possession, whereupon this action was instituted.

Opinion:
Per curiam.
Those circumstances are proper to be left to the jury, who may if they think proper determine 'upon them, that such acquiescence is proof of a confirmation of the bargain alter their arrival to age.
The jury found for the plaintiff, and the defendant? moved for a new trial but the court refused it.