Case ID: mann-unrep-cas_1/html/0017-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Manning, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 6344.
    Widow P. Macias vs. Octave Anfoux.
    Where in a suit upon a mortgage note and to foreclose the mortgage, the defence is that the note was made without consideration, and the mortgage was not intended to be binding, something more than probabilities must be shewn to sustain it. The defendant must establish the simulation and unreality of the act by satisfactory proof. He who attached his signature 'to legal instruments in form must expect to be held to strict proof that it was not placed there for the purpose declared by him at the time.
    Appeal from the Fourth District Court of New Orleans. Lynch, J.
    Shackleford, Huntington, and Capdeville for Plaintiff. Lacey & Butler and A. & W. Voorhies for Defendant Appellant.
   Manning, C. J.,

delivered the opinion affirming the judgment.