The widow of Charles Demange presents to the court that, earlier in the year 1854, she purchased, for the sum of $600 cash, a thirty-three-year-old female slave named Louisa from Marie Alida Simonet, also known as Courtois. She claims that Louisa came to her "warranted against redhibitory vices & diseases" and represented as a "trustworthy servant." She claims that she has since found out that Louisa was "lewd & abandonned & had been an inmate of a house of ill-repute," as well as in the habit of running away. She further claims that, in fact, Louisa ran away only seven days after the purchase and, notwithstanding "due & unrelenting diligence by advertisement in a printed paper," she has not been heard of since that time. Mrs. Demange therefore prays the court to order that the sale be annulled, the purchase price refunded, and her expenses in trying to recover her slave paid. She also asks for $200 in damages [Text in English and French; French version incomplete].
Result: Discontinued.
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