Case ID: la-ann_25/html/0224-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Morgan, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 3210.
    Joseph Bruin v. W. M. Sasser.
    is the settled jurisprudence of this court that there is no authority for rendering a judgment against the defendant in a suit on a promissory note given for the purchase of a slave, guaranteed to be such for life, hut subsequently set free by the Government of the United States.
    from the Ninth Judicial District Court, parish of Rapides. Lewis, J.
    
      Hyams & Jonas and Manning, for plaintiff and appellee.
    
      A. N, Ogden, By cm & White, for defendant and' appellant.
    Justices concurring: Ludeling, Taliaferro, Howell, Morgan.
   Morgan, J.

This case comes up on the following statement of facts:

“The note herein sued upon was given to the plaintiff, Joseph Bruin, by the defendant, Sasser, being the balance due on a slave for life, «uaranteed to be such by the said plaintiff, in the act of sale passed before a notary public in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, at the time the note is dated.
■ “The slave was a mechanic, and. defendant paid the plaintiff $1600 ■cash, and gave besides the note herein sued upon, at the time of the purchase.
“ The slave so purchased, remained in possession of the defendant until he was emancipated or set free by the Government, in 1864 or 1865.”

Under the settled jurisprudence of this court, there is no authority for the judgment herein rendered against the defendant.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the district court be avoided, annulled and reversed, and that there be judgment in favor of the defendant, the costs in both courts to be paid by plaintiff and appellee.

Wyly, J., being absent look no part in this decision.