DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, overturning a Sentence that sentenced a settler to pay for the nègre of his Neighbor, killed by his own people in a provision ground

BETWEEN the man named Vallois, free mulâtre, settler at Moustique, Appellant, of the one part; And the sieur Aumailley, settler in the said Quarter, Respondent of the other part. Seen, etc. After de Suzanne, substituting for Bourlon, Avocat for the Appellant; and Moreau de St. Méry, Avocat for the Respondent, were heard; together with de Saint-Martin the son, Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi, and all considered: THE COURT has set and does set aside the appeal and the Sentence appealed from; amending, discharges the party of Bourlon from the sentences pronounced against it by the said Sentence: orders that the fine deposited by it shall be returned to it, and sentences the party of Moreau de St. Méry to costs, etc.

The Sentence sentenced the man named Vallois to pay 3,000 liv. for the nègre who died 5 days afterward from the wounds of a blunt instrument, of which the official report established that he had received 2; blows, otherwise at the assessment of Experts who would have known him.