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  "name": "T. J. MAXWELL, Adm'r. v. ROBERT HIPP, and another",
  "name_abbreviation": "Maxwell v. Hipp",
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      "T. J. MAXWELL, Adm\u2019r. v. ROBERT HIPP, and another."
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        "text": "Dice;, J.\nThe bond declared on was executed during the late war, and there is a legal presumption that it was solvable in Confederate money.\nThe consideration of this bond was the services of a slave, which belonged to the estate of plaintiff\u2019s intestate. The plaintiff ought to have been permitted to introduce evidence as to the value of such consideration, as that was the amount which he was entitled to recover. The legislative scale does not apply to this contract, as the consideration was not Confederate money: Robeson v. Brown, 63 N. C. 554; Garrett v. Smith, at this term.\nThere was error in the ruling of his Honor.\nLet this be certified.\nPee Otjeiam. Venire de novo.",
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      "Wilson for the appellant.",
      "No counsel, contra."
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    "head_matter": "T. J. MAXWELL, Adm\u2019r. v. ROBERT HIPP, and another.\nA bond for money for the hire of a slave for 1865, given January 2d 1865, is subject to be scaled according to the value of the hire for a year, in lawful money, and not according to the legislative table of the values of Confederate currency (acts of 1865-66, c. 39.)\n(Robeson v. Brown, 63 ST. C. 554, and Garrett v. Smith, ante, 93, cited and approved.)\nDebt, tried before Logan, J., at January Special Term 1870, of Mecklenberg Court.\nThe plaintiff declared npon a bond o\u00ed the denfendant\u2019s for $1010, payable to tbe plaintiff, and dated January 2d 1865. The plaintiff offered to prove that said bond was given for the hire of a negro man belonging to his intestate, for the year 1865, and that his hire was worth $50.\nHis Honor excluded the testimony.\nVerdict for $7 70, of which $6 21 is principal money, &c., Rule, &e., Judgment, and Appeal by the plaintiff.\nWilson for the appellant.\nNo counsel, contra."
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