de St. Romes v. Carondelet Canal & Navigation Co.

In the year 1859 the Carondelet Canal and Navigation Company obtained two judgments against the Widow de St. Romes, one on the seventh of March, and the other on the tenth of November following. Before the expiration of ten years, suits were brought to prevent the judgments so obtained from being prescribed. The defendant in those suits, plaintiff in the eases now before us, set up in defense that she had never been legally cited in the original suits, and that she had never authorized any one to sign the obligations upon which those suits were predicated. Upon these issues raised in the…