Louis Emmerling petitions the court for compensation due to the ten-month disappearance of his slave named Peter. Emmerling represents that Peter was illegally employed on the steamboat Tiger without his "consent or knowledge." He claims that he "looked in vain for his slave" and was not able to find him until the end of June 1838. He prays that the Captain of the Tiger, Junius Beebe, and the boat's eight owners be cited to answer his charge of negligence and condemned to pay him $600 in lost wages, at the rate of $2 a day for ten months, and $2,000 in expenses and loss of property value, for a total sum of $2,600. Related documents reveal the existence of a slave title dispute between Emmerling and one Mr. Moussier.
Result: Granted; appealed; affirmed.
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Repository: University of New Orleans
