Cuny v. Brown

The plaintiff, who is the wife of Stephen E. Cuny, being co-proprietor with her husband’s brother, P. M. Cuny, of a tract of land in the parish of Rapides, sold her share to the latter for about $35,000, and retained a mortgage to secure the payment of the price. The husband assisted her in the act. In the same act, she authorizes her vendee to mortgage the land to James Brown to secure the payment of about $48,000, alleged to be due by him, and she agrees to give a priority to such mortgage over hers, as vendor. The principal object of the present action against Brown, the second mortgagee,…