Casimir v. Blanc

The question we are called upon to decide in this case is, whether the plaintiff be, as he alleges, the legitimate son of Jean Casimir and Ursule, alias Sulet, free persons of color. He is appellant from a judgment of the Court of Probates, repelling his pretensions as such.

He gave in evidence a certificate of baptism extracted from the registry of a church in St. Yago de Cuba, signed only by the curate, in which it is said that, on the 3d of May, 1805, he baptised an infant by the name of Francisco De Paula, who was born on the 2d of April previous, the legitimate son of Juan Pédro and Maria…