Zachariah Taylor, a resident of Mississippi, seeks the court's assistance in recovering a debt of $283.50 from Lloyd Gilbert. Taylor informs the court that Captain R. D. Richardson, acting as his “agent,” hired out two slaves to Gilbert, one at the rate of $15 per month, the other at the rate of $12 per month. Gilbert enjoyed the “services of the said negroes” for a period of ten and a half months. Although “amicably demanded,” Gilbert has yet to pay the cost of hiring the slaves. Therefore, Taylor prays that Gilbert be “sentenced adjudged and decreed to pay” the said sum of $283.50.
Result: Found for the defendant.
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Repository: East Baton Rouge Parish, Clerk of Court Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
