Hawes v. Bryan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING. •This is an action to recover a paraphernal right of the defendant’s wife in his hands, as evidenced by his receipt for the sum of five hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents, received from her mother’s estate.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING. •This is an action to recover a paraphernal right of the defendant’s wife in his hands, as evidenced by his receipt for the sum of five hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents, received from her mother’s estate. The plaintiff alleges he purchased this right at sheriff’s sale,'under two executions against Elizabeth Hawes, wife of the defendant, which were levied on this in the hands of William Bryan, her husband, who acknowledged he had received this sum, as per her receipt dated…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
Several judgments having been recovered against Elizabeth Hawes, the wife of the appellee, an execution was levied on certain paraphernal rights of the wife in the hands of her husband, as evidenced by her receipt for $ 566 39, on account of her mother’s estate; and the appellant, William Hawes, became the purchaser at sheriff’s sale. The present suit is instituted against the husband, to compel payment to the purchaser of the amount specified in the receipt.
The defence set up, is, in substance, that the wife herself could not recover, during the existence of the marriage, without a decree…
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