Case Name: POUNCY v. GUNBY'S ESTATE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1915-10-18
Citations: 138 La. 10
Docket Number: No. 20203
Parties: POUNCY v. GUNBY’S ESTATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 138
Pages: 9–11

Head Matter:
(69 South. 856)
No. 20203.
POUNCY v. GUNBY’S ESTATE.
(Oct. 18, 1915.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Homestead <&wkey;95 — Acquisition oe Homestead Bight — Exemption — Unrecorded Judgment.
An ordinary debt, though in the form of an unrecorded judgment, does not prevent the acquisition of a right of homestead which will protect the property, occupied and claimed as a homestead, from seizure in satisfaction of such judgment.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Homestead, Cent. Dig. §§ 141-146; Dee. Dig. <&wkey;>95.j
Appeal from Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Ouachita; Ben C. Dawkins, Judge.
Action by G. E. Pouncy against the estate of C. B. Gunby. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
A. A. Gunby, of Monroe, for appellant. Robert O. Randle, of Monroe, for appellee.

Opinion:
MONROE, C. J.
The estate of C. L. Gunby, through the executor, has appealed from a judgment maintaining plaintiff's injunction against a seizure of a tract of land, containing 100 acres and worth less than §2,000, under an unrecorded judgment for an ordinary debt, contracted at a time when plaintiff was unmarried and did not occupy the land, but which_ was afterwards, and after plaintiff married and settled upon the land, as a homestead, reduced to the judgment in question. The seizure, or threat of seizure, was made by reason of the impression in the mind of the executor that plaintiff was unmarried and did not live on the land, but there appears now to be no serious' dispute as to the existence of those, and the other, conditions entitling plaintiff to the exemption claimed. It is clear that the existence of an ordinary debt, even though it be reduced to judgment, will not, unless the judgment be recorded, operate to prevent the acquisition of a right of homestead which will protect property, occupied and claimed as a homestead, from seizure in satisfaction of such judgment. Const. art. 244; Robert v. Coco, 25 La. Ann. 199; Doughty v. Sheriff, 27 La. Ann. 355.
The judgment appealed from is therefore affirmed;