Hanna v. Bartlette
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. This was an action on a protested hill of exchange, for $150, date 15 April, 1843, drawn by one G. Campbell, and accepted by T. A. Bartlette* The latter answered that he had accepted the bill sued on, with another of the same date and axount, payable on the 1st, of October, 1844, but that he received no consideration therefor 4 that the consideration for which they were given, was an illegal and immoral one,…
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Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. This was an action on a protested hill of exchange, for $150, date 15 April, 1843, drawn by one G. Campbell, and accepted by T. A. Bartlette* The latter answered that he had accepted the bill sued on, with another of the same date and axount, payable on the 1st, of October, 1844, but that he received no consideration therefor 4 that the consideration for which they were given, was an illegal and immoral one, as between the plaintiff and the drawer, to wit, the hire of a slave as a concubine for the latter; that plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The defendants are sued as drawer and acceptor of a hill of exchange, for one hundred and fifty dollars. Judgment by default was taken. It was set aside as to the ac*439ceptor Bartlette, on his answer. He urged that the acceptance he was sued on, and that another bill of the same amount, now in the hands of the plaintiff, but not yet payable, were given without any value received, but on a contract contra tonos mores, to wit, the hire by the. plaintiff to the drawer, of a female slave, intended by both parties to live in concubinage with the latter. He, therefore, opposed the recovery on the…
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