Newman v. Cooper

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

This case, a contest between the plaintiff, a creditor of the defendant, and his children the intervenors, claiming the property of the community existing between their father, the defendant, and their deceased mother, the property having been conveyed to the children by the father in payment of paraphernal funds of his wife alleged to have been converted by him, was before us in 1895 (43 An. 485, Newman vs. Cooper). The plaintiff’s debt is secured by a mortgage on the community property executed after the death of his wife. The previous…