refused to admit evidence of the intestate’s declarations that he had not given the Negro, made in 1796 ; saying, after declarations of the party shall not be taken to explain his former transactions.
Robinson's administrators v. Devone, 3 N.C. 154, 2 Hayw. 154 (1801)
Nov. 1801
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North Carolina Superior Court
3 N.C. 154, 2 Hayw. 154
Robinson's administrators vs. James Devone.
npHIS was an action to recover a Negro named Peter, who bad been sent to the house of tbe defendant, in the year 1783 or 1784, some two or three years after the marriage of Devon© with the daughter of the intestate, where he has ever since continued.