Legal Opinion

Pouncy v. Gunby's Estate

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 18, 1915No. 20203PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Ouachita; Ben C. Dawkins, Judge. Action by G. E. Pouncy against the estate of C. B. Gunby. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, C. J.

The estate of C. L. Gunby, through the executor, has appealed from a judgment maintaining plaintiff’s injunction against a seizure of a tract of land, containing 100 acres and worth less than §2,000, under an unrecorded judgment for an ordinary debt, contracted at a time when plaintiff was unmarried and did not occupy the land, but which_ was afterwards, and after plaintiff married and settled upon the land, as a homestead, reduced to the judgment in question. The seizure, or threat of seizure, was made by reason of the impression in the mind of the executor that plaintiff was unmarried and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Robert v. CocoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1873

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Holahan v. NugentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1952
  2. Holahan v. NugentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1952
  3. Holahan v. NugentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1952

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