Bernardine v. Despinasse

delivered foe opinion of the court. The plaintiff claims her freedom from foe defendant, who asserts title to her in virtue of a purchase from the heirs of Galez, whom has cited in warranty. They appeared, and pleaded that foe plaintiff was their slave.

The facts of the cnse as they appear in evi-J 11 deuce are as follows. The plaintiff was born in the year 1781, in St. Domingo, the slave of . a family called Galez. She fell by partition? or otherwise, to one of foe daughters, who intermarried with a certain Antoine Goyffon.— At the period the negroes revolted in that Island, Goyffon and his…