Case Name: Jean Sarran v. Auguste Regouffre and Wife
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1857-05
Citations: 12 La. Ann. 350
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jean Sarran v. Auguste Regouffre and Wife.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 350–350

Head Matter:
Jean Sarran v. Auguste Regouffre and Wife.
When, during the existence of the community, a stock of goods was bought in the name of the wife but it was not shown that she had been a public merchant, either before or since the sale — ZTeld : that the purchase must be considered as having been made by the husband, and the debt incurred by it a debt of the community.
APPEAL from the District Court of Ascension, Duffel, J.
’A. Gentile, for plaintiff and appellant.
Eewry Duffel, for defendant.

Opinion:
Buchanan, J.
We agree in the conclusion of the elaborate and ably reasoned opinion of the District Judge, that the note of Madame Regouffre, and mortgage upon her separate estate, were given in reality for a debt of her husband ; although the transaction was clothed with the form of a contract of sale of a stock of goods by plaintiff to Madame Regouffre individually, Madame Regouffre is not proved to have been a public merchant, either before or since the sale in question. The Article 128 of the Code does not, therefore apply. On the contrary, the business of the store was carried on in the joint name of her husband and the witness Vigné. The purchase must he considered as having been made by the husband, and as a community debt, for which the separate estate of the wife was not bound, (0. C. 2371,) and no action could be maintained against her while the community existed. 6th Annual, 87.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.