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5 La. 115

McCarthy v. Lewis

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided February 15, 1850

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1850-02-15

APPEAL by plaintiff from the Fourth District Court of Now Orleans, Strawbridge, J. The judge of the district court gave the following judgment for the defendant: “ The plaintiff claims the value of a slave who was received in the parish prison, and after a detention of ten days without any commitment was taken ill, and shortly after being delivered to her owner died of the malady which attacked her in prison.

Decided 1850-02-15

¶1The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Slidell, J.

¶2The reasons given by the district judge for refusing to hold the defendant liable for the value of the slave are satisfactory.

¶3As to the question of wages it may be that the defendant became answerable for them; but we deem it unnecessary to express an opinion on this point. For if we thought they ought to have been allowed in the court below, the amount would be so small, say not more at the utmost than seven or eight dollars, that according to our uniform practice we would decline reversing the judgment on that ground.

¶4Judgment .affirmed, with costs.

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