Martin v. Drake
Supreme Court of Louisiana
This case was tried before a jury in the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. The plaintiff sues as the testamentary executor of Arthur Mann.
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
The defendants have appealed from a judgment condemning them, in solido, to pay $600, on a note drawn by Esther Drake, to the order of, and endorsed by David Drake, her husband. The petition contains the usual averments of demand, protest, and notice to the endorser-. The defendants admitted their-*219signatures, but alleged that the note sued on was given in part payment of a slave, which slave was afflicted, at the time of the sale, with an incurable redhibitory disease, well known to the vendor, Arthur Mann, when he sold the slave to them.
Roselius, for the plaintiff. No counsel appeared for…
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