Legal Opinion

Dupre v. of Boulard

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 15, 1855PublishedCited by 8 opinions

PPEAL from the Third District Court of New Orleans, Kennedy, J.

1Opinion of the Court

Spoítojrd, J.

We prefer to pass the details of this record in silence.

*412It will suffice to say that they illustrate the wisdom of that Article in our Code, which strikes with nullity the marriage of a free white person with a person of color. C. C. 95.

Whatever validity might be attached in Prance to tho singular marriage contract, and subsequent unnatural alliance there celebrated between the plaintiff and the deceased testatrix, it is plain that, under the facts in evidence, the Courts of Louisiana cannot give effect to these acts, without sanctioning an evasion of the laws, and setting at…

2Cited by8 opinions

  1. Estate of StullSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
  2. Luick v. ArendsNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1911
  3. Greenhow v. James' Ex'orSupreme Court of Virginia · 1885
  4. State v. TuttyU.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia · 1890
  5. Succession of GabissoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1907

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