Case Name: PLEASANTS vs. ROSS
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1811
Citations: 2 Mart. (o.s.) 114
Docket Number: 
Parties: PLEASANTS vs. ROSS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 2
Pages: 114–115

Head Matter:
PLEASANTS vs. ROSS.
Person, entrusted with goods, no witness against the cletainer.
This, and the following case, were omitted in their proper places.

Opinion:
The petition stated that the defendant, as sheriff levied an attachment against the goods of one Da vis, on certain good of the plaintiff. To prove the propertym Davis was offered as a witness, the goods having been entrusted to him, to bring them to New-Orleans andsell them on commission, and left by him in the store of the person in whose hands they were attached-but the Court (Martin, J. alone) rejected his testimony.