Gaudet v. Gourdain

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

The plaintiff, who sues for her freedom, has appealed from the judgment rendered against her in the first instance. The material allegations of her petition are that, the defendant, Jean Gourdain, purchased her mother and the two children she then had, under an agreement made with her said mother, that he would emancipate her, and retain only her two children in bondage, provided she paid one half of the purchase money; that the mother fulfilled that condition before the petitioner was born, by paying $220, half of the amount of the…