Brainard v. Head

This suit is for the recovery of the amount of an execution which came into the hands of defendant, as Sheriff of the parish, of Bienville, on the grounds of negligence and the omission of his official duties.

It appears that the defendant seized a slave called Alfred, under a writ of fieri facias issued at the suit of the plaintiffs against Giffin & Leverrett, and placed the slave for safe keeping in the Parish Jail of Bienville; and .that the slave escaped from jail and was not retaken by the defendant, although he (the slave) remained and was seen occasionally in the parish by other…