Folse v. New Orleans Coast & Lafourche Transportation Co.

The defendants are sued as common carriers for the value of a slave of the plaintiffs, which it is averred the said defendants undertook to convey on their steamboat Music, from New Orleans to the plaintiffs’ plantation, on Bayou Lafourche, and which they failed to deliver.

The lower Court gave judgment against the defendants, who have appealed.

The slave was a runaway, and was received on board tlie boat by the captain, who promised to have an eye on him, and he was fastened by handcuffs to the hog-chain of the boat on the boiler deck. One of the *200officers of tlie boat says that “ the slave…