Chase v. Mayor
Supreme Court of Louisiana
AITEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action against the mayor and aldermen of the city of New-Orleans, to render the corporation liable and recover from it six hundred dollars, being the alleged value of a runaway slave, which the plaintiff’s agent had sent to the city jail for safe keeping, and who escaped from the city guards while working on the streets.
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AITEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action against the mayor and aldermen of the city of New-Orleans, to render the corporation liable and recover from it six hundred dollars, being the alleged value of a runaway slave, which the plaintiff’s agent had sent to the city jail for safe keeping, and who escaped from the city guards while working on the streets. The attorney for the corporation pleaded a general denial; and further averred that a certain slave named Peter, escaped from the police jail on or about the 9th day of August, 1833, without any fault of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action in which the plaintiff claims t.he value of a slave who made his escape while employed with the chain-gang'on the streets, under the direction and control of t.he corporate authorities of the city of New-Orleans. Judgment was rendered against the corporation for the value of the slave, and the defendants have appealed to- this-court.
The slave in question was a runaway, and sent to the cala-boso or city jail as such, without' any particular directions regarding his treatment, his character, or the length of time lie was to stay.
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