The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-19
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BLANCHE L. STTTTG VS.. CAMILLE ROOS.
DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. Ian
DRY.-NO. 1923.

Blanche L. sittig and Camille Roes were mar
rled On the 18th day of April, 1871. During the
year 1871, subsequent to the marriage, Domi
nick 2. 3ittig, father of Blanche /. Sittig, gave
and d0lsated to her, for her own separate use,
ana as Der separate property, various sums OF
money, which were taken possession of and ap-
prOpriated to his OWL use and benefit by llel
husband, the Defendant herein.
On the 18th November, 1873, the Plaintiff filed
and caused to be registered her sworn state
ment of her husbands Indebtedness to her as
required by lawin the mortgage book, Recorders
office, Parish of st. Landry. In this statement
she claims that he had received and apprOpria-
ted Three Thousand Dollars, donated to her at
various times by her father, after hermarriage.
On the Bfh day of October, 1874, her husband the
Defendant, to repay and replace said sum due
his wife the Plaintiff, by act before James NJ,
Thompson, Recorder of st. Landry, made a da-
ton eli Placement to her by transferring and
selling to her the contents Of the store Situated
at the corner Maine and Bellevue Streets, One
lOTlsas, saving and excepting certain items set
forth IN said act, and the appraisement there
to annexed. This act of datiOn en- Placement and
sale was made and accepted for the sum of
Three Thousand Dollars, and was intended TO
replace! and repay. the whole amount due Plain
titfby her husband the Defendant. Subsequent
ly, tO-wit: on the 18th November, 1874, Plaintiff
instituted this suit against the Defendant. She
sets forth in her petition, that her husband was
indebted to her i'll the sum of Three Thousand
Dollars; the fact of his having made the dation
en- Placement of the 18th October, 1874; alleges that
she Is cOnyersant with business that she de-
slres 20 carry on business as a public merchant;
that her husband is greatly embarrassed in his
affairs and that she desires to put an end to thc
community existing between herself and hus-
band, III. order to preserve from his creditors
Tor ne ",faIn1ly the future earnings and gains
she may derive from her business, and industry.
She rrays for an approval of the act of dati0n
en- Placement of the 8th October, 1874 that she
be deGreed the owner of all the pronerty tbns
transferred that it be declared her separate pro-
perty, fer a separation of property; for n dis
solution OF the community. and that she here
after be secured in her individual acquisitions
ana gains as a public merchant, or otherwise.
She WaB duly authorized on filing the suit. to
prosecute it to final judgement. A regular
Judgment by default having been entered
against the Defendant and he having failed to
answer, or move to set aside the default within
the legal delay, and on the final trial Plaintiff |
having established to the satisfaction of the
court, that she had received d~uringthe marriage
by donations from her father. as her own Sc
narate property at various times the sum of
Two Thousand Five Hundred and Forty Dol
lars, which the Defendant had appropriated to
his own Use, and that he was in embarrassed
CIRCUMSTANCES. 1t is by reason thereof and the
law being in favor of Plaintiff ordered, adiudg-
ed anG decreed by the court that there be
Judgment in her favor, ratifying, comfirminS
and approving the act of dalton en- Placement
made before James NJ. Thompson, Recorder. on
the 8th.da of October, 1874, for said sum of Two
Five Hundred and Forty Dollars, and
that she be decreed the Ownerof all the property
transferred by said act, as detailed and set
forth II the act and inventory annexed.
And by reason of the law, and the evidence
being Ia favor of Plaintiff, she having proven
all the other allegations in her petition con-
Is further ordered, adiudged and de-
creed by the court, that she be decreed SEPARATE
i'll PROPERTY from her said husband the Defend
ant, that the community existing between Plain
tiff and her husband the Defendant he dissolved:
size be authorized to carry on, and conduct
business, as q public merchant, free from the
IT her husband, and that she be here
after secured in her individual acquisitions as a
public merchant, or in whatever manner OBJ
Done. read, and signed in open Court, this
10th dag of February A., D. 1875.
JNO. J. MORGAN,
Judge 9th Judicial District, La.
A TIRE copy: 0. VOORHEES,, Dep. Clerk.