Pierre Grégoire Vigneaud seeks the dissolution of a contract between him and Phineas Solomon. Vigneaud represents that he recently entered into a contract of “exchange and sale” with Solomon, whereby he gave Solomon a twenty-eight-year-old slave named Joseph, valued at $800, in exchange for a twenty-six-year-old slave named Tom, valued at $850, plus $50 cash. According to Vigneaud, Tom was fully “guarantied” against all “redhibitory vices, maladies and defects prescribed by law.” Notwithstanding the warranty, Vigneaud claims, Tom is in fact “unsound and unhealthy in body.” He is afflicted with a “chronic syphilitic malady” and “chronic rheumatism,” which make him of “no value.” Vigneaud charges that Solomon was well aware of Tom’s condition at the time of the sale and concealed it from him. He therefore seeks an order directing that the contract be dissolved. He asks for an order condemning Solomon to return the slave Joseph or to pay his value plus $50 for the balance of the price of adjudication. He also seeks $300 in damages to cover the loss of his slave’s use, medical expenses, and legal fees.
Result: Discontinued.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
