Poydras v. Mourain
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SECOND PRESIDING. This is an action by the heir, as protector of certain slaves, and to have executed his ancestor’s will, in relation thereto.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SECOND PRESIDING. This is an action by the heir, as protector of certain slaves, and to have executed his ancestor’s will, in relation thereto. Julien Poydras departed this life in the year 1824, having two years previously made a will, containing, among others, the following dispositions: “Lesventes de mes habitations sous le rapport des esclaves de l’un et de l’autre sexe qui m’appartiennent et qui en dependent, et tous mes esclaves doivent étre regardés comme attachés á Pune d’elles, seront annoncées devoir étre faites…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The will of the late Julien Poydras, of the parish of Pointe Coupée, directs that all his slaves at his death, are to be considered as attached to his several plantations, on which they had been and were employed, and that his executors be required to sell them with, and as attached to the plantations on which they were situated, the vendee to come under the further obligation of freeing them at a certain period, and that the slaves thus emancipated, who may evidently be of the age of sixty years and upwards, have the immunity or privilege of…
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