Petition #20881923

Abstract

Manuel T. Beauregard, tutor of Rose Adelaide Leonard, presents to the court that his ward is the "legal owner" of a thirty-year-old mulatto slave named Manette and her eighteen-month-old child named Odile. Manette and Odile are currently in the "wrongful and illegal possession" of Thomas S. Cunningham who refuses to deliver them to their rightful owner, although "often requested and amicably demanded" to do so. Beauregard prays that Cunningham be forced to return the slaves and pay $3,000 in damages. He also asks for an order of sequestration in order to facilitate identification of the slaves.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

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