Case ID: mart-os_2/html/0142-01.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

DELAHAYE vs. PELLERIN.
    Spring 1812.
    V. District.
    A suit for a negro & damage shall bar one for damages: tho' nothing be said as to them in the first judgment.
    The plaintiff had heretofore brought a suit, in the Parish Court, against the defendant, for the recovery of a negro slave, and damages for the detention, andobtained a judgment for the restoration of the slave; nothing being said as to the damager. Theobject of the present suit, was to recover damages, theslave being restored.
    The Court held that the suit in the Parish Court was a complete bar, being brought for the serve and damages. That suit being at an end, the judgment was complete, or not. If it was not, the judgmentmhust be completed below. If complete, it must forever be bar.
   Martin, J.

being alone on the bench, took the case to New-Orleans, to be considered by Lewis, J. who concurred in this opinion.