Young Hicks seeks compensation from William Raymond and John McGee for the services of a slave named Anderson, who was hired out to the defendants for a one-year period at one hundred dollars. The defendants agreed to furnish Anderson with numerous items of clothing and "further bound themselves to treat the said boy with humanity and to return" him to Hicks on 25 December 1838. Hicks complains that the defendants "not regarding their promises and undertakings aforesaid" allowed Anderson to die while in their possession. They also never paid Hicks the hire money. Hicks asks for damages in the amount of two thousand dollars. Depositions from two physicians, who attended Anderson, reveal that he suffered from pleurisy and died during a "cold and damp" spell in February 1838.
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