Tom v. Ernest

The petition represents that André Marchesseau left the city of New Orleans to go to California about the year 1849, and, before leaving this city, deposited in the hands of Marie Louise Duseau a child named Ernest, a mulatto boy and a slave for life, born about the 17th of February, 1848, from a *45slave named Mary, the property of Samvel J. Peters, Jr., a resident of New Orleans. That afterwards. Marie Louise Duseau entrusted and deposited the child Ernest in the hands of plaintiff, to be maintained and kept for Marchesseau.

That the expenses incurred by petitioner for the preservation of this…