Holmes v. Holmes
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This action was brought to recover one thousand dollars damages for an alleged breach of a contract of passage , The plaintiff avered that on the 15th day of November, 1832, Eliza Holmes, his wife, being then in Liverpool, engaged passage to New-Orleans on board the ship Princess, commanded by George W. Holmes, for herself and child.
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APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This action was brought to recover one thousand dollars damages for an alleged breach of a contract of passage , The plaintiff avered that on the 15th day of November, 1832, Eliza Holmes, his wife, being then in Liverpool, engaged passage to New-Orleans on board the ship Princess, commanded by George W. Holmes, for herself and child. She engaged a cabin passage, but agreed to sleep in a state room in the steerage, and find her own bedding, for one hundred dollars, the state rooms in the cabin being all taken up. Having made…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The plaintiff alleges that his wife and child came as passengers from Liverpool to New-Orleans in a vessel of which the defendant was master; that she engaged a cabin passage, but agreed to sleep in a state-room in the steerage, the staterooms in the cabin being taken up. He claims damages for a violation of the contract, alleging that his wife was driven out of the cabin, compelled to eat with the servants, and in other respects ill treated on her passage.
The defendant admits that “ one Eliza Holmes, with her child,” did come out passengers in the ship, but he alleges that he did not violate…
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