Nouvet v. Vitry

The defendant filed a peremptory exception to the plaintiff’s action, averring : 1st, that the petition does not disclose a ground of action; and 2dly, that this demand has already been decided in the case of Achille B. Courcelle v. Louise A. Vitry, f. w. c., and that the judgment rendered on that occasion is a bar to the present action.

Por a proper understanding of the pleas, it is necessary to state the facts as they appear from the pleadings and from the evidence introduced on the trial of the exception.

Courcelle and the defendant had been, for the period of nineteen years, living together…