Cuny v. Robert
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT, FOR- THE PARISH OF RAPIDES, THE JUDGE THEIÍEOF PRESIDING. This is an action to recover from the defendant Robert, a negro woman named Lavinia and her child, which the plaintiff alleges he purchased from Gilbert C. Russell, the 3d June, 1832, for the price and sum of seven hundred dollars, and which slaves he alleges are in the hands of the defendant, who refuses to deliver them up.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT, FOR- THE PARISH OF RAPIDES, THE JUDGE THEIÍEOF PRESIDING. This is an action to recover from the defendant Robert, a negro woman named Lavinia and her child, which the plaintiff alleges he purchased from Gilbert C. Russell, the 3d June, 1832, for the price and sum of seven hundred dollars, and which slaves he alleges are in the hands of the defendant, who refuses to deliver them up. This suit was instituted the 1st April, 1833. Robert pleaded the general issue, and prescription of five years; and avers that he purchased said slaves from Isaac…
1Opinion of the CourtGarland, J.
This suit is brought to recover a mulatto woman, named Lavinia and her child, slaves for life, which the plaintiff says belong to him, having purchased them of Gilbert C. Russell, on the 3d June, 1832, by an act under private signature, proved to have been executed on the day it purports to be dated, by one of the subscribing witnesses. Robert claims the slaves, alleging and proving by the production of a notarial act of sale, that he had purchased them from Isaac Franklin, in New-Orleans, on the 10th March, 1829, who says he purchased her from Robert Armstrong, through the agency of one…
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