Gibson v. Hitchcock

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

The following are the salient facts in this complicated litigation.

*210In August, 1870, Mrs. C. II. Gibson, wife of J. S. Meng, separate in property by judgment from the husband, appeared in a notarial act by which she mortgaged her separate property, to secure a note of $1000, of that date, made to represent a loan which she had secured from Bennett Hitchcock. She had been authorized to make a loan of that amount by the district judge who had issued his certificate to that effect in conformity with the provisions of the Civil Code Arts. 127…