Opinion ID: 1725011
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Heading: Impoverishment

Text: There must be an impoverishment. The Court of Appeal was of the opinion that Mrs. Edmonston suffered no impoverishment. By paying the mortgage note held by Standard, on which she was personally liable, the court reasoned, Mrs. Edmonston was released from this debt to her benefit. This point of view overlooks the fact that Mrs. Edmonston gave up her house and lot to A-Second in the dation en paiement to satisfy all debts bearing against the property. When she paid Standard, therefore, she was paying an obligation of A-Second. Actually, she paid the $14,512.87 twice: once in the dation en paiement by conveying her house to A-Second with the understanding that A-Second would pay that debt and again when she paid Standard. She was thus impoverished when her patrimony was diminished by the amount paid to Standard.