Gordon v. Gilfoil
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for- the District of Louisiana. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
In January, 1867, Patrick Gilfoil, of Madison Parish, La., being .indebted to Gordon & Castillo, of New Orleans, in the sum of $4,500, or thereabouts, gave them his promissory notes therefor, payable on the 1st of January, 1868, and 1st of January, 1869, secured by a mortgage on his cotton plantation in the parish of Madison. The property was in fact community property, and Gilfoil’s wife had died the year preceding this transaction, leaving a minor son, James H. Gilfoil, as her only heir-at-law. The notes not being paid, Mary Cartwright Gordon, the holder thereof, in February, 1869, filed a…
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