Bowers v. Hale

Buchanan, J.,

The plaintiff is a married woman, separated in property from her husband, who is proved to be insolvent.

She leased, in her own name, from defendant, a house belonging- to the latter, by notarial act before Graham, notary public in New Orleans, from the 1st November, 1855, to the 1st of November, 1856, for the yearly rent of twelve hundred dollars, payable monthly, in the manner and by the installments expressed in the Act.

In the same act, the plaintiff acknowledged herself to be indebted to defendant in the sum of three hundred and thirty-eight dollars, for rent to him due and…