Fanchonette v. Grange

The plaintiff sues for $10,000 damages, which she alleges she has sustained, in consequence of the illegal and forcible seizure and detention of her person and of her two *87children by the defendants, and the assertion by them that she is a slave, and their property, forming a portion of the succession inherited by them from Laurent Grangé, deceased, to whom she formerly belonged. She avers that she is a free woman, having been regularly emancipated by Laurent Grangé in 1836, and that the allegation that she is a slave is unfounded ; wherefore she asks for a judgment for the damages claimed,…