Savenat v. Le Breton
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans. This suit was brought by the wife, to recover a lot of ground, which she claimed as her paraphernal property, and which had been sold by her husband.to the defendant. It appeared from the evidence, that the portion of the plaintiff in the succession of her father and mother, had been deposited in the hands of her aunt, who conveyed the lot in question to the husband, in discharge of the debt.
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Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans. This suit was brought by the wife, to recover a lot of ground, which she claimed as her paraphernal property, and which had been sold by her husband.to the defendant. It appeared from the evidence, that the portion of the plaintiff in the succession of her father and mother, had been deposited in the hands of her aunt, who conveyed the lot in question to the husband, in discharge of the debt. In the act, the husband acknowledged that he received the lot as part of the plaintiff’s paraphernal estate. There was judgment for the…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
In this case the plaintiff claims a lot of ground, situated in the suburb St. Mary, as having a right thereto in consequence of its being her paraphernal property. The title set up on the^part of the defendants, is derived from the husband of the plaintiff. Judgment was rendeved in her favor in the court below, from which the defendants appealed.
it appears from the testimony and documents of the case, that the husband of the plaintiff received a title to the lot in question for and on account of a sum of money, which was due to his wife from the succession of her father and mother, and which…
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