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21 La. Ann. 182

Lytle v. Whicher

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 15, 1869

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1869-03-15

<p>Payment of a promissory note cannot be judicially enforced where the consideration i» shown to be the price of a sale of slaves. 19 An. 234, 309,519.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1951

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Decided 1869-03-15

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Howe, J.

¶1It appears hy the record in this case that the note sued on was given in part payment for certain slaves. In accordance, therefore, with the decisions of our predecessors, which have become the settled jurisprudence of the State, the judgment from which the defendants have appealed must he set aside.

¶2Wainwright v. Bridge, 19 An. 234; Austin v. Sandel, 19 An. 309; Halley v. Hoeffner, 19 An. 519.

¶3It is therefore ordered and adjudged that the judgment appealed from he avoided and reversed, and that there he judgment in favor of defendants with costs in hoth courts.

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