Leblanc v. Bouchereau

The object of this suit on the part of the plaintiff, who is a married woman, is to obtain the cancellation of the sale of a slave, made by her to the defendant, a creditor of her husband. The ground assigned is that this was in reality a contract of suretyship prohibited by law, although it is clothed with the forms of a contract of sale, with right of redemption.

The defendant contends that, this being a ease of simulation as between the parties, the plaintiff is not entitled to introduce parol evidence to invalidate the authentic instrument of transfer ; and that she must either produce a…