Case ID: la-ann_23/html/0163-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wyly J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 2928.
    F. Z. Barus v. H. Bidwell et al.
    If the husband be indebted to the •wife fox paraphernal pxopoxfcy belonging to hex, which he has received, he may give her in payment for such property other'property of his own, and such property so given in payment is not liable to seizure for the debts of the husband, but is to bo regarded and treated as her separate property.
    APPEAL from the Fourth District Court for the parish of Orleans.
    
      Them'd, J. JRighton & MeOollum, for plaintiff and appellee.
    
      JE. Mllaul, for defendant and appellant.
   Wyly J.

The defendant, H. Bidwell, a judgment creditor of the husband of the plaintiff, seized as Ms property a lot of household furniture and movable effects in a residence on Dauphine street -, the sale thereof was enjoined by the plaintiff on the ground that the same belonged to her, having been conveyed to her by her husband in a notarial act of giving in payment in part settlement of a debt for paraphernal funds due her by her said husband.

The court perpetuated the injunction, and the defendant, Bidwell, has appealed. The facts disclosed in the record show a legitimate cause for the transfer from the husband to his wife under article 2421 C. C., it appearing that the former was indebted to the latter on account of paraphernal property in a sum exceeding the value of the property conveyed to her by the act of giving in payment.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be affirmed with costs.