Lucien Guillaume Hiligsberg represents that, in 1832, he bought eleven slaves from the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company and four other owners, Laurent Millaudon, Samuel Kohn, and John Slidell. The slaves all came warranted against “the vices and maladies provided against by law.” The price was $7,430 for all eleven slaves. Hiligsberg paid for the purchase by subscribing two promissory notes of $3,715 each. Hiligsberg now claims that one of the slaves, a man named Turner, has run away from his plantation and has not been recaptured. He alleges that Turner was addicted to the “vice of running away” long before he purchased him. Hiligsberg therefore wants the vendors to “restore” the $900 he paid for Turner plus expenses incurred in trying to capture him, or a reduction in the value of his promissory notes. He cites Beverley Chew, Laurent Millaudon, Samuel Kohn, and John Slidell as defendants in his suit. Samuel Kohn being absent from the city, he also cites Joachim Kohn, Samuel’s brother, as party to the suit.
Result: Denied; appealed; affirmed.
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Repository: University of New Orleans
