American Surety Co. v. Noble & Salter

HIGGINS, Justice.

Mrs. Sidney A. Freudenstein instituted a rule against the American Surety Company of New York to show cause why two lots of ground located on Eastern Street in the City of New Orleans should not be decreed to be her separate property and, therefore, not subject to the recorded moneyed judgment of the Surety Company against her husband. The defense was a general denial. The trial judge held the real estate to be the separate property of the wife and free of the judicial mortgage. The Surety Company appealed.

The record shows that the two lots in question were acquired only in…