Lacoste v. Guidroz
Supreme Court of Louisiana
PPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. Action that an act of marriage passed on the 16th March, 1893, before the judge of the Second City Court, between Honoré Lacoste .and Therese Guidroz, be declared null and void ab initio. Judgment was rendered in the District Court in favor of the defendants, rejecting the demands- of plaintiffs and dismissing their .suit.
1Opinion of the Court
*297The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
The first question which meets us in the investi-' ■gation of the case is the correctness or incorrectness of the exclusion toy the court of the testimony of Honoré Lacoste, the plaintiff.
Art. 2281 of the Revised Civil Code, amended and re-enacted by Act No. 59 of 1888, is as follows:
“ The competent witness of any covenant or fact, whatever it may be,' in civil matters, is a person of proper understanding. The husband can not be a witness for or against his wife, nor the wife for ■or against her husband; provided, that in any case where…
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