Case ID: la_5/html/0057-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Martin, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DONAVAN vs. MOONEY.
    Eastern Bis.
    January, 1833.
    APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST DISTRICT.
    On the recision of a sale, the vendor becomes entitled to interest from the time he delivers or tenders to the vendor the property.
    This is a redhibitory action to rescind the sale of a slave, and recover the price paid. The slave was purchased by public act, and warranted by the defendant against all the vices and maladies prescribed by law. Plaintiff alleges the slave was at the time of the sale, so diseased as to be unable to labor, and that the slave was a thief. Damages for expenses, incurred on account of the slave, were claimed by the plaintiff.
    The general denial was pleaded, and the court, after hearing evidence, rendered a judgment in 'favor of the plain-f°r the price, with interest from the day of judicial demand, until paid. The defendant appealed.
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    Preston, for appellant.
    Nixon, for appellee.
   Martin, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a redhibitory action, on the ground of the slave sold, being addicted to running away before the sale. The general issue was pleaded.

The District Court gave judgment for the plaintiff for the price paid for the slave, and three dollars paid for taking it, with interest from the judicial demand.

The plaintiff’s claim appears to us to have been fully established, but the defendant’s counsel has contended, that interest was improperly allowed.

Had interest been allowed before the suit was brought, we should have thought the plaintiff, having had some service from the slave, could not claim any thing from the absence of his money, but on the recision of the sale, the parties must be placed in the situation in which they were before it, and this cannot well be, unless the vendee receives back the price at once, or with interest till paid, and to this he becomes entitled, when he delivers or tenders the property.

It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment be affirmed with costs.