Legal Opinion

Sémère v. Sémère

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided August 15, 1856Published

APPEAL from the District Court of St. Martin, A. VoorMes, J.

1Opinion of the Court

Merrick, O. J.

This case was before us last year, and remanded to take the answers of the defendant to interrogatories on facts and articles., 10 A. 704.

Those interrogatories arc copied into the opinion in the report of the case to which we refer.

Defendant says, in answer to the first interrogatory: “ Mo/i'ie MwrtheSémére, passed a sale of the slave Joseph or Gharles, for the purpose of having him emancipated. As I could not succeed to do so, I went to Miss Sémire (about a year before her death) to give her back the slave, she abandoned the slave to me.”

Ans. 2d. “ I did not pay any price for…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Perkins v. EatonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1887

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