Gonor v. Gonor

This is a suit for separation of property, founded on the alleged disorder of the husband’s affairs. The plaintiff claims, among other things, as her separate property, a mulat-tress, named Adelaide, and her descendants. She alleges that said slave was conveyed to her, in November, 1811*, by act before Pedesclaux, a notary, by her mother ; that although the consideration or price mentioned in the act was two hundred dollars, the estimated value of the girl, then aged only twelve years, yet the same was an advance made to her by her mother, and that, therefore, the slaves are her own separate…