Tourne v. His Creditors
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST DISTRICT, Jacques Tourné on the 14th May, 1833, averring his insolvency had been occasioned by discords in his family, ceded his property to his creditors. His bilan showed his wife to be a creditor by her dotal rights for three hundred and twenty dollars. It attributed the insolvent’s loss of two thousand dollars to his wife’s prodigality.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST DISTRICT, Jacques Tourné on the 14th May, 1833, averring his insolvency had been occasioned by discords in his family, ceded his property to his creditors. His bilan showed his wife to be a creditor by her dotal rights for three hundred and twenty dollars. It attributed the insolvent’s loss of two thousand dollars to his wife’s prodigality. The active debts amounted to seven thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars, and the passive debts to nine thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents. At the meeting of the creditors…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The insolvent’s wife complains of a decision which dismisses her opposition to the homologation of the proceedings before the notary, on the following grounds:
1. The insolvent had been illegally appointed syndic of his own creditors, as he had attempted to defraud them by the sale of his property, and the concealment of the money and notes he had received for it from his sons, the vendors.
2. Several individuals were illegally put on the hilan as creditors, and voted as such.
3. She is a creditor to so considerable an amount, that her vote, if-it had been received, would have prevented her…
2Cited by3 opinions
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