Bonnafon v. Wiltz

This suit is brought by the plaintiff as administrator of the succession of Sosthene Wilts, deceased. He alleges that the defendant was appointed the tutor of the deceased on the 4th of December, 1848, and as such received from the estates of Alexander Wilts and wife, as the inheritance of his ward, the sum of $1645 35; that at the sale of said Alexander Wilts's estate, the defendant purchased, apparently in his own name, but in fact for his ward, a slave named Marguerite, of whom the latter took immediate possession as owner, according to their mutual understanding, and continued to hold…