Case Name: Julia Williams and Husband v. J. W. Fuller
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1875-07
Citations: 27 La. 634
Docket Number: No. 577
Parties: Julia Williams and Husband v. J. W. Fuller.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 634–635

Head Matter:
No. 577.
Julia Williams and Husband v. J. W. Fuller.
This is a suit in injunction prohibiting defendant from suing plaintiff, or foreclosing his mortgage as vendor, and praying for the rescission of the sale of a tract of land, on the ground of defective title.
The plaintiff has failed to set forth a cause of action in her petition. It has been settled that the surviving husband, the head of the community, may sell community property after the death of his wife. The title of the property, in this instance, stands in the defendant’s name on the records of the parish where the property is situated, and he is personally bound for the debts of the community. Besides, plaintiff is not disturbed in her possession, or threatened with eviction.
APPEAL from the Tenth Judicial District Court, parish of Caddo. Looney, J.
Fuqua & OalUhani, for plaintiff and appellant. A. W. O. Hides, for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
Ludeling, C. J.
The defendant sold by public act to plaintiff a tract of land, and retains a vendor's privilege and a mortgage to secure tlie credit portion of the price. Before the maturity of the last note, the plaintiff injoined the defendant from suing her or foreclosing his mortgage, and in the same suit prayed for the rescission of the sale, on the grounds substantially that the property belonged to the community of R.. T. Buckner and his wife, and that after the death of Buckner's wife, he could not sell the property, as he had a child, a minor, who owned an undivided half of the community property. The defendant moved to dissolve the injunction on the face of the papers, and afterward alleged in his answer that' the suit was premature; that she had not tendered him a title of the property, and that she was in the undisturbed possession of the property, etc.
There was judgment in favor of the defendant and plaintiff appealed.
The plaintiff fails to set forth a cause of action in her petition. It has been decided by this court that the surviving husband, the head of the community, may sell community property, after the death of his wife. The title of the property stands in Ms name on the records of the parish where the property is situated, and he is personally bound for the debts of the community. Besides, she is not disturbed in her possession or threatened with eviction. 26 An. 219; 17 La. 27; 2 An. 460; C. C. 2560.
It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be affirmed, with costs of appeal. It is further ordered that the defendant's rights to sue for damages for wrongfully suing out the injunction be reserved.