Pritchard v. Citizens' Bank
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action to require the Citizens’ Rank, in New-Orleans, to receive certain dotal property on mortgage for bank stock, subscribed by the plaintiffs in said bank.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action to require the Citizens’ Rank, in New-Orleans, to receive certain dotal property on mortgage for bank stock, subscribed by the plaintiffs in said bank. The plaintiffs allege they subscribed in the name of Mary Ross Pritchard, for seven hundred and fifty shares of stock, and in due time tendered to the directors of the Citizens’ Bank, a certain lot of ground with eleven dwellings and two other houses, and their appurtenances thereon, to be mortgaged as a security for. their stock, in pursuance of the provisions of the bank…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
This is an action to compel the Citizens’ Bank to receive a certain lot of ground with the buildings thereon, part of the dotal property of the wife of the plaintiff, as security for seven hundred and fifty shares of stock, subscribed by the plaintiff and wife in said bank, according to the terms of its charter. The bank refused to receive the property, on the ground that it being the dot of his wife, was not susceptible of mortgage. From a decree rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, the bank has appealed to this court.
The counsel for the plaintiffs in support of their demand, relies on a…
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