Goudeau v. Roach

On the 9th of October, 1913, Mrs. Henrietta E. Goudeau, who is now Mrs. Roach, signed what purported to be an act of sale to her brother, Alfred M. Barbe, of lots 4, 5, and 6, in block 4 of the Barbe addition to the city of Lake Charles. The consideration for the sale was declared in the deed to be $4,000, paid to her in cash by Barbe. Mrs. Roach was then the wife of Lionel Á. Goudeau, and he signed the deed to authorize her to sign it; and both of them, on the same day, signed an acknowledgment before a notary public and two witnesses that Mrs. Goudeau had, executed the deed, “and that it…