The defendant and plaintiff entered a verbal contract to carry out the sale of a slave. Before the contract was confirmed the defendant asked if he could have the slave to work on his house promising that he would be returned the next day or would confirm the contract. The slave was never returned and had since gone missing. The district court ruled in favour of the defendant after instructions from the judge to the jury that the plaintiff did not prove that it was the defendant's fault that the slave had disappeared. In this appeal case the supreme court did not agree with that opinion and ordered that the case be remanded for a new trial in the district court.
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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Material sourced from the Louisiana and Special Collections of the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans
