Legal Opinion

Cousin v. St. Tammany Bank & Trust Co.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 3, 1919No. 23000PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany; Pren-tiss B. Carter, Judge. Action by Mrs. Eugenia Cousin against the St. Tammany- Bank & Trust Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment dissolving a writ of injunction and rejecting her demand to prevent the sale of property seized in executory proceedings on a mortgage note for $1,740. The executory proceedings were brought against her husband. She claims that the property seized is her separate property, not the property of her husband nor of the marital community. But the property itself is not in contest, except in so far as the defendant bank is attempting to subject it to the payment of the mortgage note. The only matter in dispute, therefore, is the validity of the mortgage held by the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Lhote & Co. v. Church Extension Soc. of Methodist Episcopal ChurchSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Howard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1942
  2. Vaccaro v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1945
  3. Wesson v. John Woodley, Inc.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1932
  4. Bacher v. KraussSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1934
  5. Bujol v. Missouri Pac. R. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1944

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