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.
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.
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.