Williams v. Bartow
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING. This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff seeks to recover an estate, or tract of land, called the Arlington estate, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, together with the slaves, cattle and horses, stock and farming utensils, and the growing crop thereon, which were in the possession of the defendant, and which the plaintiff allegts are illegally and unjustly withheld from him. He also alleges, that he has suffered ten thousand dollars in damages, by reason of…
1Opinion of the CourtEustis, J.
The plaintiff instituted this suit against the defendant, for the recovery of a plantation called Arlington, with the negroes, cattle and farming utensils thereto belonging. The defendant, on the trial of the cause, abandoned all pretensions to the title and possession of the property,-and confined his claim to a sum of money which he set up in compensation to certain damages which the plaintiff had alleged he had sustained, in consequence of the defendant’s acts, to the amount of ten thousand dollars.
The plaintiff offered no evidence in support of damages; the defendant adduced evidence to…
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