Felicity Bourk Ferrary Escalin asks the court to authorize her to sue her husband, Joachim Escalin, for separation of property; and to order Escalin to return the property she brought into the marriage or pay her for it. The petitioner, widow of Bernard Ferrary, claims that, when she married Joachim Escalin in January 1808, she brought one hundred "arpents" of land, a thirteen-year-old "Mulatto wench", a mare, and $1,550 in "claims" to the marriage. Felicity now states that she is in danger of losing her "dowry" due to various "misfortunes" and her husband's mismanagement of their property. According to Felicity, Joachim has sold almost "every part" of his property and "even disposed of" the land and the slave she brought into the marriage. In order to prevent the loss of her dowry, Felicity asks the court to direct her husband to "restore" her property or, failing to do so, to pay $5,000 for the land, $1000 for the slave, and $25 for the horse.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: West Baton Rouge Parish Courthouse, Port Allen, Louisiana
