Case Name: Josephine v. Poultney
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1846-11
Citations: 1 La. Ann. 329
Docket Number: 
Parties: Josephine v. Poultney.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 329–329

Head Matter:
Josephine v. Poultney.
Where the owner removes with a slave into a State in which slavery is prohibited, with the intention of residing there, the slave will be thereby emancipated. Their subsequent return to this State cannot restore the relation of master and slave.
APPEAL from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J.
David, for the plaintiff. R. H. Chinn, for the appellant.

Opinion:
The judgment of the court was pronounced by
Eustis, C. J.
In this case the operation of the laws of Pennsylvania upon the personal condition of the plaintiff and the rights of the defendant, by a residence acquired in that State by both of them, released the plaintiff from the dominion, which the defendant had over the person of the plaintiff as a slave, in Louisiana. Her condition once being fixed, under the decisions of the late Supreme Court, she cannot be reduced to the condition of the slave of the defendant. 2 Martin N. S. 401. 7 La. 170. 13 La. 445. But see the case of the Slave Grace, 2 Haggard, 94. It is understood that this decision relates only to the right of oivnersMp of the plaintiff, as the slave of the defendant.
Judgment affirmed.