Case Name: Summers & Brannins v. J. Y. and F. V. Hollingsworth
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-05
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 386
Docket Number: No. 2642
Parties: Summers & Brannins v. J. Y. and F. V. Hollingsworth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 386–387

Head Matter:
No. 2642.
Summers & Brannins v. J. Y. and F. V. Hollingsworth.
The wife can not bind herself for ber husband, nor conjointly with him, for debts contracted by him before or during the community. C. C. 2Í12.
The question of the effect of the renunciation of the wife’s mortgage can not be examined by the appellate court, if, in answer to the appeal, she fails to ash for the amendment of the judgment in her favor.
APPEAL from the Thirteenth District Court, parish of Tensas.
Hough, J. Farrar & Beeves, for plaintiffs and appellants. F. D. Farrar and Samuel B. Walker, for defendants and appellees.

Opinion:
Ludeling, C. J.
The plaintiffs sue the defendants, husband and wife, in solido, for eight thousand and thirty-five dollars, and for a recognition of their mortgage, executed by defendants to secure the debt. On the twenty-second day of January, 1867, the plaintiffs and the defendants entered into a contract, whereby the plaintiffs agreed to furnish supplies and moneys to cultivate a certain plantation in this State, and the defendants jointly and severally executed _three promissory notes, each for $3000, and they gave a mortgage on lands in this State, a part of which is statod in the act to he community and a part the paraphernal property of the wife; and the wife renounces her legal mortgage on the community property in favor of the plaintiffs.
The only questions presented by the pleadings are, has the wile bound herself for any part of the debt claimed, and is the mortgage given by her on her separate property valid Í
The evidence establishes that the debt created was for the benefit of the community, and the Civil Code declares that the wife " can not bind herself for her husband, nor conjointly with him, for debts contracted by him before or during the marriage." Art. 2412, 14 An. 169.
The question argued in the brief, relative to tho renunciation of the wife's mortgage, can not be examined by us, as the appellee has not, in her answer to the appeal, asked for the amendment of the judgment in her favor.
It is therefore ordered that the judgment of the district court be affirmed, with costs of appeal.
Rehearing refused.