Grimes v. Whitesides

The defendant is a married woman, and has been since 1857. On the eighteenth day of March, 1888, she executed and delivered to James B. G-rimes, deceased, a promissory note for $299.63. On the thirty-first day of August, 1891, the sum of $200 was paid on the note. The present action is one in equity, in which the plaintiffs, as executors of G-rimes, seek to have the balance due on the note declared a charge on lots five (5) and six (6) in block two (2), in Marshall 8. Allen’s first addition to the city of Louisiana. The alleged ground of the equity is that at the time of the' execution of the…