Case ID: la-ann_23/html/0556-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ludeling, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 762.
    Helena McDonald, Wife, etc., v. James M. Thompson, Sheriff, et al.
    The husband is not a competent witness to testify on the trial of an injunction suit in which the wife is plaintiff, because his testimony must be either for or against his wife. C. C. 2281.
    APPEAL from tho Eighth Judicial District Court, parish of St. Landry.
    King, J. Martel ó¿ Hudspeth, for plaintiff and appellee.
    
      Henry L. Garland, for defendants and appellants.
   Ludeling, C. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment perpetuating an injunction obtained by the plaintiff.

During the trial the defendants took a bill of exceptions to the ruling of tho judge a quo, refusing to permit the husband of the plaintiff to testify, on the ground that husband and wife are prohibited from testifying for or against each other. We think the ruling was correct. The husband must of necessity have testified either in favor or against his wife in this caso. C. C. art. 2281.

We are convinced from the evidence, that the plaintiff is the owner of the property, the sale whereof was enjoined.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment of the district court be affirmed, with costs of