Siverd v. Dumestre
Siverd v. Dumestre
Opinion of the Court
When plaintiff left the common domicile she carried away with her some of the furniture belonging to the community, and she also collected $137 belonging to the community.
The bedroom set which she says was given her as a wedding present the evidence shows was not so given.
The 'trial court dismissed plaintiff’s suit, and also the reconventional demand.
Judgment affirmed.
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- SIVERD v. DUMESTRE
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- Syllabus
- (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.) 1. Husband and Wife In suit by a divorced wife for settlement of the community acquets and gains existing between herself and husband during marriage, evidence held, to show that a house and lot was bought by the husband with money loaned him by his mother for that purpose, and that the sale to his mother 15 months later was a dation en paiement in reimbursement of the money loaned. 2. Husband and Wife Where a husband invested in a house and lot his savings before marriage, the community, on dissolution by divorce, owed him the purchase price of the house and lot. 3. Husband and Wife &wkey;>272(5) — Community Property — Certificates of Stock — Sufficiency of Evidence. In suit by a divorced wife for settlement of the community of acquets and gains that existed between her and her husband during the marriage, as to five certificates of stock in a home association, evidence held to show that the certificates were bought in the wife’s name with money which the husband had given her from time to time as gifts. 4. Husband and Wife Money expended by a husband in repairs on a house which constituted community property was a community expense to be allowed him on dissolution of community by divorce.