Delphine Decuir, a free woman of color, represents that, upon her marriage to Antoine Pollard, a free man of color, her dowry consisted of one female slave named Mary and Mary’s child. It also consists of hereditary rights to one seventh of her mother’s estate and to any other property acquired during the marriage, either by inheritance or donation. She claims that this dowry, which over the years has grown to a total value of $14,056, including money, land, and slaves, is now endangered by the state of confusion of her husband’s affairs. Her husband has sold, among other property, two other of her dowry slaves. She therefore seeks a judgment against her husband for separation of property, the right to exercise the legal mortgage she holds on his estate, and restitution of her slave Mary and Mary’s family of four children. She also wants the freedom to administer her own estate.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana
