Donaldson was the original owner of a slave who was in the possession of Alsop when Alsop died. The slave was acquired and auctioned as part of the estate of Alsop to pay his creditors by the curator Rust who is the defendant in this case. The defendant claimed that the slave was in fact the property of Alsop at the time of his death and there was a bill of sale to prove this. The plaintiff claimed the slave was still in his property by agreement with Alsop and produced a counter letter as evidence. A ruling was made in favour of the defendant in the parish court and the plaintiff appealed. In this hearing Justice Mathews delivered the opinion of the court, annulling the previous judgment, that the plaintiff had no right to recover the slave but that the defendant must repay the plaintiff [dollars] 965 being the price of the slave at the time of auction.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the Louisiana and Special Collections Department, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.
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Louisiana and Special Collections Department, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans
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