Goldenbow v. Wright
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAR FROM THE PARISH COURT, FOR THE PARISH AND C1T1 OF NEW-ORLEANS.' This is an action to recover the sum of six hundred dollars, the value of a slave, which the plaintiff alleges the defendant illegally took on board the steam-boat Lady Washington, which he commanded, and carried him out of the state, by which he was entirely lost, as he has never returned.
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APPEAR FROM THE PARISH COURT, FOR THE PARISH AND C1T1 OF NEW-ORLEANS.' This is an action to recover the sum of six hundred dollars, the value of a slave, which the plaintiff alleges the defendant illegally took on board the steam-boat Lady Washington, which he commanded, and carried him out of the state, by which he was entirely lost, as he has never returned. The plaintiff alleges that he is the owner of said slave; that he is worth six hundred dollars, and that the defendant is liable, by reason of his illegal conduct, to pay his value ; for which he prays judgment. The defendant excepted,…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The defendant is appellant from a judgment which condemns him to pay the value of a slave of the plaintiff, taken on board of the steam-boat of which the former was master, without the consent of the latter, the slave having fallen overboard.
The facts of the case are these: the slave, who is stated in *373the petition, to be a boy about thirteen years of age, went on board of the boat unperceived by the defendant, on atrip from New-Orleans to Natchitoches, in company with a sister of his, a connection of the wife of the cook, who, discovering the boy about an hour after the boat left the city,…
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