Petition #20885452

• Orleans Parish, Louisiana. March 21, 1854. - March 24, 1856.
• Court: District
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Second District Court of New Orleans

Abstract

Sarah Hill, of Nashville, Tennessee, seeks compensation for the loss of her slave named Edmund. Hill represents that, in December 1852, she placed Edmund in the hands of James White through her agents in New Orleans, "Messrs Swiney Green & Co.” White was charged with selling Edmund, a nineteen-year-old mulatto man. Hill claims that White "carelessly and with the grossest negligence entrusted” Edmund to the care of another slave and sent the two men to the “wharf or steam boat landing” in New Orleans, whereupon Edmund escaped. Sarah Hill asserts that she has advertised a reward for Edmund's capture in the public newspapers of New Orleans without success. Edmund has never been found. Hill therefore prays for an order directing White to pay her $1,500 in damages, her estimate of Edmund's value, with legal interest.

Result: Partially granted; appealed; reversed.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: Transcript of Court Records, 22 March 1854-15 January 1856, including: Judgment, 6 April 1854; Testimonies, J. J. Green, et al., 17 December 1855; Letter, Dr. Oscar Hamilton, 21 December 1852; Deposition, Oscar Hamilton, et al., 3 May 1854, 4 May 1854, 13 May 1854; and Judgment, 17 December 1855; Petition of Appeal, ca. 24 January 1856; Order, 24 January 1856; Supreme Court Opinion and Decree, 24 March 1856
• Pages of related documents: 31

3 people are documented within petition 20885452

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: University of New Orleans

• Supreme Court of Louisiana Collection

Subjects

• Ships
• Non-plantation/Non-household work (enslaved)
• Skills (enslaved)
• Freedom seekers
• Assessed Value (enslaved)
• Warranty (enslaved)
• Slave trade (domestic)