21681803https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21681803VirginiaWinchesterCity2591818Superior011820Superiorpartially granted; injunction dissolved; dismissed103Library of Virginia, Richmond, VirginiaJohn Hinkle states that "sometime in the month of July 1817" he "contracted with one Van Swearingen ... for a negro man (then his property) for the sum of six hundred dollars." Hinkle reveals that "Swearingen refused to take less than 600$," and "your orator observed that as he wanted a good fellow he supposed he must acquiese & accordingly the bargain was closed." Based on the "declarations & recommendations of said Swearingen," the petitioner admits that he "did not for a moment suppose that [the slave] was not perfectly sound in all respects." However, Hinkle contends that Swearingen "committed a gross fraud on your orator." He alleges that the slave Tom arrived at his house "full of pain & disease," adding that "sometime in the month of October last ... he was compelled to lay up in bed being unable to walk & so continued untill the 9th of February 1808 when he died." Charging that his "family was put to great inconvenience in nursing and attending upon the slave for several months & were obliged to lift him from place to place he being unable to walk," Hinkle prays that the judgment obtained by Swearingen for nonpayment "be enjoined."Death of enslaved (disease)Diseases (physical)Medical treatmentWarranty (enslaved)Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)