Phillis v. Gentin
Supreme Court of Louisiana
ATPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a suit to obtain freedom. The plaintiff, a woman of color, alleges she was born free in the state of Pennsylvania, and that she and her two young children are held in slavery by the defendant. She prays that she and her children be adjudged free, and allowed five hundred dollars as damages for their illegal detention in slavery.
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ATPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a suit to obtain freedom. The plaintiff, a woman of color, alleges she was born free in the state of Pennsylvania, and that she and her two young children are held in slavery by the defendant. She prays that she and her children be adjudged free, and allowed five hundred dollars as damages for their illegal detention in slavery. The defendant alleges the plaintiff and her children are slaves, and that he purchased them as such, by public hr notarial act, passed before the parish judge of East Baton Rouge, curd prays that Leon…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
In this case the plaintiff, held in slavery by the defendant, claims her freedom; her right to it is denied, and several persons who had sold her as a slave at different times were successively called in warranty, &c. The court below rendered a judgment declaring her free and from which the present appeal is taken.
The decision of the case depends principally on matters of fact; and the evidence, as it comes up to this court; fully sustains the judgment of the court below. The record, however, contains bills of exception to its intrbduction. The only one which we deem it necessary to notice is…
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