Civil tribunal of Le Cap declares General Jacques Simon’s estate vacant

This habitation belongs more particularly to the commune of Caracol. It was the property of General Jacques Simon, commandant of the arrondissement of Porte-Pilate, under President Boyer: he had received it from the State as a national gift and had leased it to the citizen Robert Cadet, director of the council of notables of the parish of Fort Liberté and landowner at Terrier Rouge. At the death of General Jacques Simon his widow renounced his estate. The civil tribunal of Cap-Haitien gave a judgment dated 20 November 1843, declaring the estate vacant and naming a curator to administer it. The special curator for vacant estates of Cap-Haitien, the citizen Jeantel Manigat, and the administrator S. V. Tassy continued to lease the habitation to the citizen Robert Cadet until 31 December 1850. The State is therefore its owner. However, General Nord Alexie, commandant of the department of the North, claimed to occupy it from 1860 to 1898 on the ground of having bought it from the lady widow Jacques Simon, who had renounced her husband’s estate. In the session of the Senate of 8 September…

Rouzier tells this under the entry CHABERT.