Case Name: SHADDOCK'S CASE
Court: Superior Court of Louisiana
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1812
Citations: 2 Mart. (o.s.) 207
Docket Number: 
Parties: SHADDOCK'S CASE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 2
Pages: 207–208

Head Matter:
SHADDOCK'S CASE.
Witness losing her passage, &c. by being recog-nised, not entitled to allowance therefor.
This woman claimed the daily allowance of a witness, from the date of her recognizance, on the authority of M'Fall's Case, ante 171. It appeared she came from New-York, about nine or ten months ago, for the purpose of collecting some debts due to her. She was part of that time in Florida, returned to New-Orleans, where she kept a boarding-house for two months-afterwards she gave up the house, and engaged her passage on board of a vessel bound to the Havanah. She was deprived of the opportunity of sailing in her, by being recognised to attend this Court as a witness.

Opinion:
By the Court.
We went sufficiently far in the ease cited, and the principle on which it was determined is not susceptible of extension. The applicant was not deprived, by being bound as a witness, to follow her former mode of obtaining a support. The means through which she had maintained herself during the preceding nine months, at the time of the call made on, were not thereby taken from her. M'Fall was a Kentucky trader, who had come to dispose of a cargo -had he gone home and returned to Court, the milage would have amounted to more than the daily allowance. Havanah, where the present applicant wished to go, was not more her place of resi dence, indeed much less so, than New-Orleans.
Claim disallowed.
Young, for the applicant.