Marie Louise v. Marot
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APFEAL FROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT'. This is a suit for freedom. .The cause was before this court at June term, 1835. 8 Louisiana Reports, 475. On the return of the cause to the District Court, the plaintiff filed a supplemental petition, in which she alleges, that her daughter Josephine, whose emancipation and freedom she claims, wras taken to France by the defendants, a country in which slavery is not tolerated, and that she thereby became free; that the…
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APFEAL FROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT'. This is a suit for freedom. .The cause was before this court at June term, 1835. 8 Louisiana Reports, 475. On the return of the cause to the District Court, the plaintiff filed a supplemental petition, in which she alleges, that her daughter Josephine, whose emancipation and freedom she claims, wras taken to France by the defendants, a country in which slavery is not tolerated, and that she thereby became free; that the defendants, since their return to this state, have maliciously imprisoned her said daughter, for which she claims five…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This case involves a question of freedom, in relation to the condition of a mulattress, who is held to slavery by the defendants,, as a statu liberi. The cause was before the court in June term of 1835, and was remanded for a new . trial. Before the last trial in the court below, the filed a supplemental petition, by which the mother and actual guardian of her daughter claimed freedom for her, in consequence of her having been taken by her.owners to the kingdom, of France, &c.
When a slave once becomes free by ihp operation of the laws and customs of another country or slate, to which he is…
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