Supreme Court of Louisiana October 15, 1842 (Womack v. Nicholson)

Morphy, J.

This suit is brought to recover the value of a negro woman named Nancy, hired by the plaintiff to the defendant, with damages. It is alleged that, with the knowledge and consent of the latter, one Churchman, his overseer, did so cruelly beat and maltreat the said slave, who was then in a state of pregnancy, as to cause her to be delivered of a child a month or more before the natural