Johnson v. Pilster
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. This was an action by Celina Johnson, the wife, separated a mensa et thoro, of Henry A. Johnson, to enforce a legal mortgage for the restitution of paraphernal property, on a slave alienated by the latter a short time before the judgment of separation.
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Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. This was an action by Celina Johnson, the wife, separated a mensa et thoro, of Henry A. Johnson, to enforce a legal mortgage for the restitution of paraphernal property, on a slave alienated by the latter a short time before the judgment of separation. The evidence established the marriage of the plaintiff ; the separation from bed and board by a judgment of the proper tribunals; the amount originally due from the husband for her paraphernal property, and the balance still due after the sale of his property; the renunciation…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
The petitioner, separated in bed and board from her husband, Henry A. Johnson, seeks to enforce her legal mortgage on a slave named Hannah, sold by him, and now in the possession of the defendant. The facts of the case, about which there is no dispute, are; that a few months after the marriage of the plaintiff, in August, 1832, her husband received from one Jacques Blanchard, a sum of three thousand dollars, due to her from the estate of her father, Pierre Allain, and for which her mother and tutrix, the wife of Blanchard, was accountable to her; that the three thousand dollars were paid in…
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