| Summary: | Estes stated that Hairston brought an attachment against him whilst he was on his way with a group of slaves from Virginia to Tennessee. The slaves were detained in Stokes county and their maintenance in the custody of the sheriff cost [dollars] 1,400. In the ensuing case a verdict was found against Estes for [dollars] 10,000, for which sum, as he was not in his own state, he was unable to obtain security. Estes stated that he had been advised that the verdict against him was unsound and so prayed for a certiorari to be issued for the case to be heard in a higher court. The original contract between Estes and two of his relatives and Robert Hairston, signed in 1818, was for the purchase of a tobacco crop at [dollars] 10 per hundredweight. The assignment of Robert Hairston's interest to Peter Hairston, on a separate document, was dated 1822. The Supreme Court found that the trial judge had erred, as an assignment of a contract to another had to be on the same piece of paper on which the contract had been written. A certiorari was therefore issued for the plaintiff.
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