Langlish v. Schons

J. delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff and appellee, instituted this suit, in order to have a notarial act declar- ed null and void, as forged and fraudulent, and to obtain damages against Schons, for his agency in the forgery and fraud.

The act purports to be a donation of liberty, from the plaintiff to his slave, and seems to have been executed in due form, after the previous measures had been pursued, as required by law, to authorize the emancipation of a slave. In this Schons alone appears to have been active. He signed the petition to the court, in which authority to pass…