Cuffy v. Castillon

The plaintiff and appellant claims her freedom, and that of her children, under a contract between her former master and Cuffy, a freedman, her father. A copy of the contract comes up with the record, as well as the proceedings, which took place, in a Spanish tribunal on that contract, by which it appears that a judgment was rendered, fixing the value of each slave, who was to be manumitted, under the Stipulations in the contract, and imputing a payment of 316 dollars to the benefit of one of them.

*495 East'n District. May, 1818.

By what rule of law, or principle of justice the Spanish tribunal…