Pelagie Rodrigue seeks to regain control of her dotal and paraphernal property from her husband, Pierre Faucheux. Rodrigue asserts that, according to her marriage contract, she brought a slave woman named Yacinthe and $2,090 in promissory notes into her 1832 marriage to Faucheux. Since then, Yacinthe has given birth to a child named Felicité, whom Pelagie considers part of her dotal property. In addition, Pelagie inherited a slave woman named Janette from the estate of her mother, Marguerite Delatte. She informs the court that her husband is in a “habitual state of madness and insanity” and has been “interdicted on account of his sanity” from the administration of his person and property. Therefore, she asks the court to appoint a guardian for her husband and to order a separation of property.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: St. John the Baptist Parish Courthouse, Edgard, Louisiana
