Rowe v. Succession of Blackburn

The succession of Ebenezer Gou is claimed by the children of his deceased half-sister, Mary O’Gee. Ebenezer Gou and Mary O’Gee were born of the same mother. This mother after the death of her first husband, the father of Mary, married the father of Ebenezer. These were slave marriages, which produced no civil effects. C. C. of 1825, art. 182.

Counsel for claimants recognize that the legitimacy of the children of a marriage is one of the civil effects of the marriage, and recognize also that a slave marriage in this state produced no civil effects, and therefore did not superinduce the…