Case Name: WATKINS vs. McDONOUGH
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1812
Citations: 2 Mart. (o.s.) 154
Docket Number: 
Parties: WATKINS vs. McDONOUGH.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 2
Pages: 154–154

Head Matter:
WATKINS vs. McDONOUGH.
Parol evi-vidence, of warranty in the sale of a slave, mad-missible.
Suit on a warranty for the soundness of a negro sold by the defendant. The answer denied all the allegation in the petition.
Hatkins, for the plaintiff,
offered a witness to prove the sale.
Morse, for the defendant.
The evidence is in. admissible. The Civil code provides that every covenant, tending to dispose, by a gratuitous or incumbered title (untitre gratuit ou onéreux) of any immoveable property or slaves in this territory, must be reduced to writing, and in case the existence of such a covenant should be denied, no tarol evidence shall be admitted to prove it. Art, 241, p. 310.

Opinion:
Witness rejected.