State ex rel. Wilson v. Pierre

Ruth Lee, a young woman residing at Natchitoches, La., became enceinte, and in order to conceal her shame from her family and her friends departed for New Orleans. On October 3, 1921, she was 'delivered of a female child in a colored maternity home in that city, under the care of Mrs. R. J. Walls, a midwife. She shortly thereafter accepted an, offer from Sallie Pierre, wife of Andrew Pierre, defendants, and with her child removed to the home of Sallie Pierre, living in New Orleans, with the understanding that she would ply her avocation as a seamstress and do the family sewing. In February,…