Douglass v. Douglass

III

On tiie Merits.

The theory of plaintiff’s suit is two-fold, (1), that the alleged sale from petitioner to Douglass, and from Douglass to her husband, on -the same day, and in the presence of the same witnesses, was, essentially, a sale from petitioner to her husband, and in violation of the prohibitory terms of the Revised Civil Code 2446, which prohibits husband and wife from contracting any sale between them, except in certain specified eases; (2), that the two pretended sales aforesaid having been- made without any consideration, same are simulations .and void per se.

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