The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05
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BLANCHE L. sTTTTG VS.. CAMILLE ROos.
DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. Ian
DRY-No. 1898.

Blanche L. Sfttig and Camille Roos were mar,
ried on the 18th day of April, 1871. During tie
year 1871, subsequent to the marriage, Domf.
nick c. Sittig, father of Blanche l.. Sittig. gave
and donated to her, for her own separate USE,
and as her separate property, various sums Of
money, which were taken possession of and ap,
pr0pTiated to his own use and benefit by her
husband, the Defendant herein. =
On the 18th November, 1879, the Plaintiff filed
and caused to be registered her sworn states
ment of her husbands indebtedness TO her ss
requiredby lawn the mortgage book, Recorders
office, Parish of St. Landry. In this statement
she claims that he had received and aDpropria-
ted Three Thousand Dollars, donated to her at
various lines by her father, after hermarriage.
On the 8th 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 en- Placement to her by transferring and
selling to her the contents of the store Situated
at the corner Maine and Bellevue Streets, Opa-
iousas, saving and excepting certain items set
forth in said act, and the appraisement there
to annexed. This act of dalton en- Placement and
sale was made and accepted for the sum ff
Three Thousand Dollars, and was intended 10
replace and repay the whole amount due Plain.
tiffby her husbandthe Defendant. Subseouenf<
lT, to-wit on the nth November, 1874, Plaintiff
instituted this suit against the Defendant. She
sets forth in her petition, that her husband was
indebted to her in the sum of Three Thousand
Dollars; the fact of his having made the dalton
en- Placement of the 9Th October, 1874; alleges that
she is conversant with business; that she do.
sires to carry on business as a public merchants
that her husband is greatly embarrassed in his
affairs and that she desires to put an end TO file.
community existing between herself and hns1
band, in order to preserve from his creditors
for her family the future earnings and gains
she may derive from her business, n indlstrgs
She prays for an approval of the act of datiGf
en- Placement of the 9th October. 1874 that slgg
be decreed the owner of all the property tllgs
transferred; that it declared her separate nT4p
perry, for a separation of property; for a di
solution of the community, and that she herg.
after he SnnIJrnN i'm hnp indivfdrIoJ aont,te;4;n~En
and gains ass public merchant, or otherwise.
She was duly authorized on filing thegsuit. Ia
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 Anal trial Plaintiff
having established to the satisfaction of the
court, that she had received duringthe marriage
by donations from her father, as her own se-
paTate. property at various times the sum oil
Two Thousand Five Hundred and Forty Dol
lars, which the Defendant had appropriated IA
his own use; and that he was in embarrassed
circumstances. 1t is by reason thereof and tfha
law being In favor of Plaintiff ordered, adiud&4
ed and decreed by the court that there tie
Judgment in her favor, r~atffying, cOmfrmina
and approving the act of dalton en- paiemeTf
made before James n. Thompson, Recorder. on
the 18th day OF October, 1874, for said sum of Two
Thousand Five Hundred and Forty Dollars, ana
that she be deereed theownerof all the property
transferred by said act, as detailed and SET
forth in the act and inventory annexed.
And by reason offlie law, and the evidence
being in favor Of Plaintiff, she having provea.
up all the either allegations in her petition colI1
tanned, 1t isflrtheP ordered, adiudged and de-
creed by the court, that she be deereed separafa5
Ill property from her said husband the Defends
ant, that the community existing between PlaiuS
tit andhefhusband the Defendant be dissolved:
that she De authorized to carry on, and conduct
business, asa public merchant, free from the
control of her husband, and that she be here
after secured in her individual acquisitions as al
public merchant, or in whatever manner OBJ
tanned. Il
Done, read, and signed in open Court, this.
Goth day Of February A., D. 1875.
JNO. j. MORGAN. q
Judge 8th Judicial District. La. !.
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