Heirs of Coons v. Stringer

It is agreed that this case (which was submitted at the close of the last term in be decided in New Orleans.

•We think the defendant and appellant entitled to the credit, claimed in the brief of his counsel, of eleven thousand dollars cash, of the separate estate of defendant, brought into the community.

The matrimonial partnership should be settled on a footing of perfect equality between the partners. One ought not to have a greater advantage in such settlement than the other. Upon this principle, the doctrine of the case of Downs v. Morrison, 13 An. 319, and of the cases therein cited, is…