G. Pascal & Co. v. Folse

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

The defendant and her husband owned in indivisión the Pothier plantation, in Assumption parish. They were separate in property. The husband cultivated the plantation on his own account until the year 1890, when he became indebted to the plaintiff in a sum, in round numbers, of five thousand dollars. They declined to give further advances without security. In 1890 the wife was authorized, strictly in accordance with law, to borrow two thousand five hundred dollars to cultivate her half of the plantation. The permission was for her to borrow…