Mary Stutes L'Enclos seeks to protect her property. She states that she brought $1,000 into her marriage with Antoine L'Enclos. "For several years past," Antoine "has squandered and wasted almost all his estate and has contracted several debts to a greater amount than all his property if sold would pay." The only property he has left is a "small quantity of personal property," a tract of land, and a slave woman, whom he has mortgaged. The petitioner fears that her “dower” is now in danger from her husband's creditors. Therefore, she prays that the court "decree that so much of the Estate of the said Antoine may be sold" to bring a sum of $1,000 and that the total be secured to her for the benefit of herself and her children.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: St. Landry Parish Courthouse, Opelousas, Louisiana
