Calhoun v. Lane
Supreme Court of Louisiana
k PPEAL from the Twelfth District Court, Parish of Grant. Jt\j Overton, J. 1. A married woman, authorized l>y her husband, can enter into a valid compromise of disputes aud rights affecting her separate property.
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k PPEAL from the Twelfth District Court, Parish of Grant. Jt\j Overton, J. 1. A married woman, authorized l>y her husband, can enter into a valid compromise of disputes aud rights affecting her separate property. In a suit upon such compromise, if she fails to plead or prove that the debt was her husband’s or the community’s, or that the Compromise was secured by fraud or forced under marital coercion, and offers no evidence on the trial, she is hound; aud the creditor having shown that the compromise was properly executed, and had relations solely to her paraphernal property, can enforce the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
The plaintiff and defendant are brother and sister, and sole heirs-at-law of their deceased mother, Mary Smith Calhoun, who died in 1871.
Plaintiff alleges that, for a long time, there had been disputes and differences between them in regard to their respective rights and interests in their mother’s succession, and that, in order to adjust and put an end to said claims, disputes and differences, and “ to perfect and quiet the title assei'ted by defendant, in and to the property of the said succession,” he and defendant made a written…
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