Tennessee Supreme Court September 16, 1871 (Rice v. Crow)

Nicholson, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiffs, as surviving partners of Rice, Wilson & Isbell, claim title to a sorrel mare and colt repleyied by them from Catharine Crow. They had been the owners of the mare, and agreed to sell her to Nelson Philips, a colored man. At the same time they agreed to sell three other horses to three other colored men.