Legal Opinion

Ulzere v. Poeyfarre

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 15, 1820Published

Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans.

1Opinion of the Court

Martin. J.

delivered the opinion of the court. The petition charges that Mary Ann, a Chickasaw squaw, was by various means entrapped and conveyed to M. Songy, a planter, of the parish of St. James, then under the dominion of Spain—that, shortly after she had two children, Ulzere and Frances, two of the plaintiffs, who were duly baptised, and whose certificates of baptism will be produced at the trial ; that afterwards Frances bore Marie Therese and Casimir, the two other plaintiffs, who were also duly baptised and whose certificates of baptism will also be produced at the trial ; that Mary…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Durnford v. DegruysSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1820

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