Marguerite v. Chouteau

Opinion of

Tompkins, J.*

This is an action of trespass, assault and battery, and false imprisonment, brought by the appellant against the appellee, to recover her freedom.

On the trial, the following facts appeared in evidence: Madame Chauvin deposed, that Marguerite, the plaintiff, appellant here, was born in the year 1778; that the name of her mother was Marie Jean, sometimes called Marie Scipion, who belonged to and lived with Joseph Tayon, the deponent’s father; that the mother of the appellant was in possession of deponent’s father from the time of his marriage until January, 1801, when she…