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Ar PELL ANT, unci nOMlNlQUE ROUSSEAU and PAUL JOSEPH LA( ROIX, (^DeJi')ulants in the Court hclow,') RF.SPOM)E\'T\ T, Tjie Appellant's Case, j^ HE Ai);)ol!ant institulod in the Kinu's I^cnch at Montreal, an Action aoainst the lirsnondcnts, who are partners can-yino- on trade at Montreal and in the indian (Mnmlricri, tor the recovery of a sum ortwenly-live pounds due to him l)y tiie Respctndenls ibr his services as a I oya^eur. The LVelaraiion eonhiins two eonnts, oi\e i'cmnded upon the written airrecment ent<'red into, l)(-t^ve(l» lliese parlies : and tiioolhcr on an indc^ h7lulu.s u,ssunipsit, ibr work and hd)our oenerally. ThedeienecK't up by liie Respondents was, that the Api)el!ant had ,h«^obeved the Re-^ponden'.s, and had, noUvithslandino- liieh- prolubition, Iraded with the Indians and had taken i! upon hinis.^U; contrary to the a.vreen:ent and n-ainsl the will of the Respondents, to l)rm-.- cown three o7lbur |:a^•^enoers in the Respi^ndents' canoes, to the danuioe ot the Res- pondents, iVe. The facts as di.-closed in the . videnc(> in the cause, are lliat t!ie Appcl- ianl in the snuniicr of One thousmd eiolit hunthvd and fd'teen, entered nito an agreement in the Ibrni used in the Indian trade, to proceed as canoeman and pilot (^7'/(/e) in the Resrcndent's Canoes <'i>d batteaux t(. ..iicnh- n^ackiuac and thci.ce lo return in llio same to >!( .ilreal. lie accordnj^'V left Montreal about the tenth of June, 1815, but on arrivmo- withni a halt iea.vue of tiie Island upon wliic!\ the Fort of Micluhn-.ackmac stands, Mi^f acroix, one of the Re-po/den^, directed the parlv to return to Druni- inoiid Island, the For! of :^[ie!>ilimackinac luivin^- fallen mt.» the Imnds oi the Ai!'xricai;s'. h'ere Mr. I.acroix required the cannetnan lo build for him a store. The Lu- 'xndent refused to join in Uiis work, statiii/>- that it was not included in [.is '<,reement. Mr. I'.acro-x slopped Ihe .\ppellant's provisions m conse- (ptence, and the Ap.pellanl wilh some others of the canocMuen passed seven diivs v.ilhout reecivinii-auv i-.sud whatever from Mr. Lacroix. Air. Lacioix, in a ra; e, lold tlie Appellant that in consequence of this re- fusal he would not pav him hi-; wa-es; but on no occasion did he Imd kiult wilh the i::eueral coiulnct .>f the .Vpudlanl, Mlrich, l)y the tcstummy ot all the wilnes-ey, ap])ears to lia\e been hii^hiy exemplary. The Ai>pellnnt, after being detained sixteen or seventeen days, at Diimi- mond Island, left that Island with tiie consent and by t!ie orders ot Mr. Lacroix, hi the caiuie (;f the Respimdents, and conlmued his ser\ ices to them as canoeman and pilot to Montreal, where lie urrned m the uionlh of September, 1815. ~'--^- ^ 14: vilii coisls. It is iVmu this jud-incut llial the prof-Ml nppral is bvougl.t = Quebec. ^Ovtj July. lH»a ii i#