Elizabeth Patterson, the wife of Robert Rogers, seeks compensation for the hire of a slave to George Jackson. Patterson contends that Jackson “owes and justly detains” the sum of $230.12. Elizabeth Patterson Rogers claims that, at Jackson's "special instance and request,” she hired out to him a female slave named Becky, as a wet nurse, from 15 August 1827 to 26 November 1828. Jackson undertook and promised to pay “what ever the services of said slave were reasonably worth,” which Mrs. Rogers claims amounted to $15 per month. The latter complains that the sum “has long been due and often demanded” but that Jackson “has hitherto refused and still refuses and neglects the same to pay or any part thereof.” Therefore, she prays that Jackson be condemned to pay the aforesaid sum of $230.12. Jackson's related answer reveals that Becky actually belonged to a T. H. Thompson. It also reveals that Jackson had hired out two slaves to Mrs. Rogers during the same period that Becky had been hired out to him.
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: St. Landry Parish Courthouse, Opelousas, Louisiana
