Christophe Strantz seeks to recover a debt from Felix Garcia. Strantz claims that he was employed as overseer on Garcia’s plantation, in the parish of St. Charles, from December 1848 until the 6th of February of the current year. He was to receive an annual salary of $1,200. In addition, he rented five male slaves to work on Garcia’s plantation for a year, at a cost of $600, and furnished “sundries,” worth $66 for use on the plantation. For payment, Garcia signed a draft in the sum of $1,866 to be drawn on P. Rotchford of New Orleans. Strantz presented the draft for payment, but was refused. He further claims that seventy-five hogsheads of sugar, on which he has a privilege as security on the debt, have now been loaded aboard the brig Detroit and are about to be shipped out of the state. Strantz therefore prays for a writ of sequestration of the seventy-five hogsheads of sugar. He seeks a judgment against Garcia in the sum of $1,866 and asks that his privilege on the shipment of sugar be recognized.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: St. John the Baptist Parish Courthouse, Edgard, Louisiana
