Leaird v. Davis

Citations

• 17 Ala. 448

Syllabus

<p>1. D. and L. entered into a contract, by which the former, in consideration of $400, agreed to hire to the latter for a year certain slaves, and to superintend them as an overseer, and work as a laborer. Poon after D. had delivered the slaves and entered on the performance of his contract, L., for good and sufficient cause, discharged him from his service. D.s when he left, carried the slaves off with him, and L. with another went ' in pursuit and retook the slaves, whereupon D. sued them in trespass:— ' Hid — 1st. That the contract vested the title to the slaves in L.; and although the hiring of the slaves'and of D. as an overseer was an entire ■ contract, L.’s title to the slaves was not divested by the discharge of D. , from his service. 2d. That D. having no right to take the slaves, L. was not guilty of a trespass in peaceably reclaiming the possession.</p>