Whaley v. White

This suit is on a promissory note executed by the defendant in favor of his divorced wife, Mrs. Lorena White, which is secured by a mortgage and vendor's lien on a lot in the City of Shreveport, Louisiana. The note was endorsed by Mrs. White and transferred to her son-in-law, the plaintiff herein, after its maturity. Plaintiff's demand was rejected and his suit dismissed at his cost. He prosecutes appeal from that judgment.

The case has for its background a series of rather unique facts, checkered by not a small amount of interesting judicial history, all of which we shall briefly relate.

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