Louisiana, Supreme Court, New Orleans : Audige (free woman of colour) v Gaillard (free man of colour), February 1853.
An appeal by the plaintiff against the judgment of the District Court that went in favour of the defendant, Manon Gaillard, whom she sued for damages. The plaintiff kept a firearm disguised as a cane in her yard. The defendant's slave, a boy around fourteen years old, on the request of the plai...
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