Court of Appeals of Kentucky June 2, 1802 (Stapp v. Howdershell)

By tlie instrument of writing containing the agreement of, and executed by, the parties, and upon which the suit is founded, it appears that Stapp, on the day of executing the agreement, delivered to Howdershell a bond executed by John Hunt, junior, of Bourbon county, for two negroes, which Howdershell was to keep if Stapp should not deliver to him one negro boy or man over fifteen years of age,