Slatter v. Holton
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastuks- Drs. APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COUNT EON THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW • ORLEANS. This is an action to recover the sum of $1000, the value of a slave, which the plaintiff alleges the defendant carried away from the State of Louisiana in the steamer Henry Clay, on or about the 10th January, 1837, whereby he was totally lost. The plaintiff had the steamer Henry Clay sequestered, and claims a privilege thereon for the pnce and value of his slave.
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Eastuks- Drs. APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COUNT EON THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW • ORLEANS. This is an action to recover the sum of $1000, the value of a slave, which the plaintiff alleges the defendant carried away from the State of Louisiana in the steamer Henry Clay, on or about the 10th January, 1837, whereby he was totally lost. The plaintiff had the steamer Henry Clay sequestered, and claims a privilege thereon for the pnce and value of his slave. The defendant pleaded the general issue ; and reconvened the plaintiff in damages to the amount of $2000, for the illegal and unjust detention of…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
Plaintiff seeks to recover the value of a slave named Sha-drack who, he alleges, was carried out of the State without his knowledge and consent on board of the steamboat Henry Clay, whereof the defendant was master, oil or about the 10th of January, 1837. The answerdenies the facts set forth in the petition, and sets up a reconventional demand of $2000 damages for the unlawful and unjust detention of the boat in this suit; and for the expenses and trouble imposed on defendant in causing her to be released from former proceedings instituted by plaintiff against her, but afterwards…
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