Supreme Court of Louisiana June 15, 1818 (Metayer v. Noret)

Derbigny, J.

delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff and appellee is a woman of colour, who complains of having been arrested and imprisoned as a slave by the appellant, and sues him for damages, The fact of the arrest and imprisonment is admitted; but the defendant and appellant contends, that the plaintiff is the slave of Jean Pierre Metayer, whose attorney in fact he shews himself to