Case Name: William C. Lytle v. P. V. Whicher, et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1869-03
Citations: 21 La. Ann. 182
Docket Number: No. 430
Parties: William C. Lytle v. P. V. Whicher, et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 182–182

Head Matter:
No. 430.
William C. Lytle v. P. V. Whicher, et al.
Payment of a promissory note cannot be judicially enforced where the consideration i» shown to be the price of a sale of slaves. 19 An. 234, 309,519.
from the Seventh Judicial District Court, parish of West Feliciana. HeVea, J.
Wiclcliffc <& JPaclcwood, for plaintiff and ap-pellee. Collins tfi healce, for defendants and appellants.

Opinion:
Howe, J.
It appears hy the record in this case that the note sued on was given in part payment for certain slaves. In accordance, therefore, with the decisions of our predecessors, which have become the settled jurisprudence of the State, the judgment from which the defendants have appealed must he set aside.
Wainwright v. Bridge, 19 An. 234; Austin v. Sandel, 19 An. 309; Halley v. Hoeffner, 19 An. 519.
It is therefore ordered and adjudged that the judgment appealed from he avoided and reversed, and that there he judgment in favor of defendants with costs in hoth courts.