Barbin v. Gaspard

This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff, as administratrix of the succession of her late husband, Joseph Normand, and as tutrix of his minor heirs, demands the recovery of a negro girl in the possession of George W. Snoddy, one of the defendants to the suit.

*540The plaintiff alleges, that Joseph Normand purchased the slave from Frangois Gaspard — but that the title was made in the notarial act of sale to G. W. Snoddy, who was only a person interposed for the purpose of defeating the pursuit of Normand’s creditors, and that the sale to Snoddy was a pure simulation, without any reality…