Supreme Court of Louisiana January 15, 1841 (Lesseps v. Pontchartrain Railroad)

Gabland, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit is brought to recover the value of a slave, two mules, a cart, and damages for the loss of them. The plaintiff says, that by the negligence and mismanagement of the engineer or conductor of one of the steam cars, in use in the year 1834, on the railway belonging to the defendant, it was run against the cart of the plaintiff, which was