Court Opinion

ID: 8630044
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-24 19:36:11.47167+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:55:44.246774
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CRANCH, C. J.,
dissented, because he was of opinion that the defendant might make a valid promise, (subsequent to his emancipation) grounded upon the consideration of the money advanced while the defendant was a slave, and still this claim would be in. consequence of such advance of the money, and that such promise would become a new contract made subsequent to his manumission, and therefore not within the act of assembly. He also inclined to the opinion that the acknowledgment to Harris was a fact from which the jury might infer an express promise by the defendant subsequent to his emancipation, and before the suit brought See Williams v. Brown, 3 Bos. & P. 72, Heath, J.’s, opinion.