Seline Barra petitions for a separation of property from her husband, Louis Viales. Seline Barra Viales represents that, at the time of her 1804 marriage to Louis Viales, she received as dowry a share in her late father’s estate, cash, furniture, cattle, and a slave named Joseph. Joseph was valued at $600. In 1817, "owing to unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances," Louis Viales was forced to abandon his property to his creditors. His affairs are now in a state of “disorder” and Seline fears that his estate will not be sufficient to meet her “dotal rights and property.” She therefore prays for leave to sue her husband and to be separated in property from him. She asks that Louis be ordered to restore all her “dotal” property, as well as other property “he may have received during the marriage” in her “right.”
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana
