Fastin v. Eastin's Heirs
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Disr. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is a suit instituted by the plaintiff against the widow and heirs of the late Herbert Eastin to enforce a judgment which she had previously obtained against her husband for one thousand and fifty dollars, the value of her dotal and para-phernal effects, against certain property or its proceeds which she alleges her said husband fraudulently sold to said Eastin in his…
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Western Disr. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is a suit instituted by the plaintiff against the widow and heirs of the late Herbert Eastin to enforce a judgment which she had previously obtained against her husband for one thousand and fifty dollars, the value of her dotal and para-phernal effects, against certain property or its proceeds which she alleges her said husband fraudulently sold to said Eastin in his life time. She alleges that shortly before she obtained her judgment against her husband, with a view to defraud her, he…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The plaintiff, in this case, having obtained judgment' of separation of property from her husband and recovered the sum of about one thousand dollars for the amount of her par-aphernal property, caused an execution to issue, which was returned nulla bona. She then instituted the present action against the widow and heirs of Herbert Eastin, in order to annul, so far as it relates to her claim, a sale made by her husband to Eastin, in his life time, of certain lands and slaves, which sale she alleges was in fraud of her rights, and she prays that at all events she may be declared to have a…
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