Case ID: la-ann_34/html/0906-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pociié, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 8565.
    James Powers vs. Sarah E. Rea, Individually and as Natural Tutrix.
    The defendant in this case ’executed a note and mortgage, individually and as tutrix of her two minor children, with the authorization of a family meeting, to secure a debt due by a man with whom she was living in concubinage, and who supported her and her family, and now she resists payment on the ground of want of consideration, misrepresentation and fraud. Held, that the plea of want of consideration, as regards the minors, must prevail, but it fails as to the defendant, an unmarried woman, who had full power to bind herself, as she did, and who failed to prove that fraud or misrepresentation had been practiced .on her by plaintiff, the creditor and mortgagee.
    APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Tissot, J.
    
      Walter 0. Flower, for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    
      J. 0. Nixon, Jr., for Defendant and Appellee.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Pociié, J.