State v. Judge of the First Judicial District
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Application for a mandamus to the Judge of the First Judicial District. George A. Waggaman presented a petition representing that an action had been instituted against him in the District Court of the First Judicial District, by his wife, to withdraw from him the administration of her paraphernal property. That, at her instance, an order of sequestration had been issued, and executed on a plantation, and certain slaves, in the parish of Jefferson.
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Application for a mandamus to the Judge of the First Judicial District. George A. Waggaman presented a petition representing that an action had been instituted against him in the District Court of the First Judicial District, by his wife, to withdraw from him the administration of her paraphernal property. That, at her instance, an order of sequestration had been issued, and executed on a plantation, and certain slaves, in the parish of Jefferson. That she subsequently obtained, ex parte, an order to put herself in possession of the property, on executing a bond, with surety, in the sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtMaiitiN, J.
Toa rule to show cause why a mandamus should not be issued commanding the judge to grant a suspensive appeal to Geo. A. Wagganian, from a judgment obtained by Marie Camille Arnoult, his wife, against him, the judge has answered : that the wife having instituted a suit for a separation from bed and board, afterwards filed her petition claiming the administration of her paraphernal property, and praying for its sequestration. The property having been sequestered, and the husband having neglected to apply to bond the property within the period fixed by the Code of Practice, art. 279, the wife…
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