Mercer v. Andrews

The facts are stated in the opinion of the court, delivered by

Mathews, J.

In this case the petitioner states herself to be a creditor of the estate of her late husband, for a balance due to her of *539$18~OOO, and claims to have a tacit or legal mortgage on a plantation situated in the Parish of Plaquemines, which was sold by her husband, (subsequent to the marriage contract, on which she bases her claims,) and camebyregular transfers into the possession of the defendant, who holds the same as a lonct fide purchaser; and in his favour judgment was rendered in the court below, from which the…