Taylor v. Penrose
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.- This is an action to recover from the defendants the amount of hire, and the possession of a gang of negroes, which the plaintiff conveyed to them in February, 1833, under a conditional contract. On the 9th February, 1836, this suit was instituted on the ground, that the defendants had failed to comply with the terms of the agreement, and were largely in arrears for the hire of the slaves.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.- This is an action to recover from the defendants the amount of hire, and the possession of a gang of negroes, which the plaintiff conveyed to them in February, 1833, under a conditional contract. On the 9th February, 1836, this suit was instituted on the ground, that the defendants had failed to comply with the terms of the agreement, and were largely in arrears for the hire of the slaves. The plaintiff prayed that the slaves be sequestered during tbe pendency of the suit. Penrose, one of the defendants, made application to…
1Opinion of the CourtCarleton, J.
This action is brought upon a contract purporting to be a conditional sale of a number of slaves for five years, at a stipulated price per annum, which plaintiff reserved the right of receiving in sugar at four cents per pound.
An appeal lies from an order singto allow the i!om¡Ul!property which has been also 6 from ’ the asideanorde/of sequestration. defendanUssued to deliver the gangSof01siaves, qüestei7daatth¡ inception of the he allowed tose-Ind bondPthei™ leaving ^tWest the officer.
The contract contains various other stipulations, among which are, that the slaves should remain on…
2Cited by1 opinion
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