Lapice v. Lapice

On the first of May, 1866, the defendants executed and delivered to the plaintiff their promissory note for $50,000, due first of January, 1858, for borrowed money. In order to secure the payment thereof they executed a mortgage on their plantation in- the parish of St. James.

The plaintiff, the payee of the note, subsequently married Jules de Longpré Fitzgerald, and by a marriage contract she constituted to herself in dowery this note together with other property. She finally instituted this suit, with the authorization of her husband, for the recovery of the amount due on the note and to…