Ware F. M. C. v. Barataria & Lafourche Canal Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PR0ÍI THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action of damages, in which the plaintiff claims from the defendants two thousand dollars damages occasioned by one Joseph Meyer, their lock-keeper, for assaulting, beating and imprisoning him, and taking his fishing boat and its load or cargo of oysters.
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APPEAL PR0ÍI THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action of damages, in which the plaintiff claims from the defendants two thousand dollars damages occasioned by one Joseph Meyer, their lock-keeper, for assaulting, beating and imprisoning him, and taking his fishing boat and its load or cargo of oysters. The plaintiff alleges, he was returning from Barataria with his skiff or boat with oysters, on the Barataria canal, and in passing through the locks, near the Mississippi river, he was violently seized and assaulted, without cause; put in the stocks, and his boat, oysters, and…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
The plaintiff claims damages to the amount of two thousand dollars, for assault and battery, false imprisonment and consequent loss of property, which he alleges to have suffered by the acts and doings of one Joseph Meyer, while in the employ of defendants, as keeper of the locks of the Barataría and Lafourche Canal Co. He sets forth that being an oyster-trader from Baratada, he arrived at the locks or sluices of the canal, on the Mississippi; that, after being unnecessarily detained there, he was by the said lock-keeper cruelly beaten, stripped of his clothes, and put in the stocks, on a…
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