Supreme Court of Louisiana May 15, 1823 (Reynaud v. Guillotte)

lead-opinion

Porter J.

The petition sets forth that on the 24th February 1821, the defendants sold to the plaintiff a negro boy named Tommy, about 23 years old, for the sum of $900 and warranted him free from all redhibitory vices and diseases: that at the time of the sale the slave was afflicted with ulcers on his leg, and that the defendants knew it, but made false representations respecting