Mandeville v. Cookendorfer
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
Action on the case, for negligence of a stage-office keeper, in suffering the plaintiff’s slave to escape, by permitting him to go in the stage coach to Baltimore under a false pass. This cause having been tried upon the new venire issued by order of the Court at December term, 1827, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs, with $200 damages, subject to the opinion of the Court, whether the action would lie against the office-keeper, the agent of the owners of the coach.
1Opinion of the Court
Cranch, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court, (Thruston, J., dissenting.)
The declaration consists of two counts.
The first count charges that the plaintiffs were owners of the slave Richard Bunbury; that the defendant was “ the keeper and superintendent, and had the management and control of a stage-office for the entry of lawful passengers travelling from the city of Washington to Baltimore,” “ and had the management, superintendence, and direction of that part of said line of stages which leaves Washington city for and on the route to said Baltimore ; and the said Cookendorfer, not…
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