Case Name: MEUNIER vs. COUET
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1811
Citations: 2 Mart. (o.s.) 56
Docket Number: 
Parties: MEUNIER vs. COUET.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 2
Pages: 56–57

Head Matter:
MEUNIER vs. COUET.
Serving and reserving, &c. are words of Courses which imply no denial.
Concubinage goes to the credit only, ofa witness.
Vendee's daughter an inadmissiable witness.
This suit was brought to recover a negro slave, in the possession of the defendant. The answer stated the possession of the defendant during six years, with the plaiiitiff's knowledge. It began by the usual manner of reserving of all and every manner of advantage, &c. and did not deny the plaintiff's title.
Mazureau for the plaintiff.
We need not adduce evidence of our title.-We have set it forth in the petition, and the answer does not deny
Derbigny contra.
We admitted nothing and we have reserved all our rights, by an express clause.

Opinion:
By the court.
The words used in the begin--ing of the answer, are words of course and which do not imply any denegation of what the plain-tiff sets forth in the petition. As you have not denied lus title, he is not to be required to prove it~
TH E defendant offered a witness who was objected, to on the ground that the defendant lived with him as his wife, although they were not married. The objection was overruled; as this circumstance goes oni to the witness's credit and does not affect his competency. Hill vs. Wood, Esp. 722.
The daughter of the defendant's vendee, who had warranted the title, was next offered, but not allowed to be sworn. Civil Code, 312, at. 248.