Dixon v. Sanderson

Stayton, Chief Justice.

This is a suit brought by Mrs. Dixon to enjoin the sale of a house and lots under an execution issued against *361her husband. She claims and the evidence is sufficient to show that some time during her coverture, with one dollar which she had before her marriage, she bought a ticket in the Louisiana State Lottery on which a prize of 015,000 was drawn, and that with a part of this the lots in controversy were bought and the improvements thereon made.

It is further shown that the husband agreed at the time the lottery ticket was bought that whatever prize might be received on…