Harman v. Legrande
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Red River; W. T. Cunningham, Judge. Suit hy Harman & Stringfellow against P. A. Legrande and others. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendants other than the ’defendant named appeal.
1DissentO’Niell, J.
(dissenting from that part of the opinion which holds that the surviving husband’s written acknowledgment of the community debt, represented by an open account, took the half of the debt that was owing by his children out of the prescription of 3 years and made it subject to the prescription of 10 years). I concede that the surviving husband, after the death of his wife, had authority to interrupt prescription by a written acknowledgment of a community debt, as to the half of the debt for which his children might have been held responsible. I concede, therefore, that the giving of a…
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