Joffrion v. Bordelon

Merrick, O. J.

The plaintiff, then a widow, being about to marry Valery Bordelon, on the 8th of October, 1840, signed, with him, a marriage contract, wherein it was agreed that there should be a community of acquets and gains between the future spouses. The marriage contract enumerated the paraphernal property of the wife, but did not constitute the same in dower. It also enumerated the separate property of the future husband.

The marriage was solemnized the same day. The parties lived together but a few months and then separated, the wife receiving her paraphernal effects and ever afterwards…