Coco v. Lacour
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This suit is brought on a promissory note, executed by Doralise Lacour, late widow of J. P. Lemoine, deceased, as principal, and Martin Rabelais as security, for one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-one cents, with interest, payable to the plaintiff, and dated 27th March, 1830. The husband of Madame Lacour states, at the bottom of the note, that he authorizes her to…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This suit is brought on a promissory note, executed by Doralise Lacour, late widow of J. P. Lemoine, deceased, as principal, and Martin Rabelais as security, for one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-one cents, with interest, payable to the plaintiff, and dated 27th March, 1830. The husband of Madame Lacour states, at the bottom of the note, that he authorizes her to sign it. The defendants aver they executed the note in error. That the former husband of Madame Lacour, Jean P. Lemoine,…
1Opinion of the CourtPortee, J.
The plaintiff held two notes on the succession of the defendant, Lacour’s husband; one had been endorsed and transferred to him by a certain Gauthier; of the other, he was the payee. After the death of the obligor, she was appointed tutrix to his minor children, and assumed the administration of the estate. While acting in that capacity, she took up the two notes already mentioned, and gave in' lieu of them, that on which this suit is brought; the codefendant, Rabelais, signed as surety.
To this action the defendants plead that there was a want of consideration for the instrument on which the…
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