Gastauer v. Gastauer
Gastauer v. Gastauer
Opinion of the Court
After a judgment of separation from bed and board had been rendered in favor of plaintiff against her husband (132 La. 942, 61 South. 879), and plaintiff had accepted the community of acquSts and gains that had existed theretofore between them, a partition of the community property was ordered. The property was converted into cash, and the notary to whom had been referred the making of the partition filed his project of partition. In it he recognized certain claims as being debts of the community, and others he noted as being contested.
Another disputed item is $519, of which there is no further specification in the record, or in the brief, than reference in general to the record in the separation from bed and board suit, and the following:
“To amount due Mrs. Gastauer, paraphernal funds, belonging to her advanced by her for the benefit of the community lately existing between plaintiff and defendant, $1,242.”
We assume that, if this claim had been intended to be seriously urged, there would have been greater particularization of it than this.
Another disputed item is $2,148 which Mrs. Gastauer says she spent during the pendency of the suit in separation for the support of the two sons and two daughters of the marriage. The youngest was 19 at the date of the trial. The community property amounts to $3,884.80, and is about absorbed by the community debts. Whether the husband had any other property is not positively shown,
It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment appealed from be, and is hereby, set aside in so far as it recognizes and orders the payment of the claim of Mrs. Gastauer for $611.82, and in so far as it charges the community with the items $214.60, costs in divorce suit, and $233.05, judgment- in suit Untereiner v. Gastauer (No. 100789), and the said judgment be, and is hereby, affirmed in so far as it rejects the claims of Mrs. Gastauer for $519, alleged paraphernal funds advanced by her to the community of acquSts and gains, and for one-half of $2,148, alleged expenses incurred by her in support of the children of the marriage, and recognizes the mortgage' of Otto Walther as a community debt, and it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the said claim for $611.82 be, and the same is hereby, rejected, and that the above-mentioned two items of $214.60 and $233.05 be, and the same are hereby, decreed not to be community debts, but separate debts of the husband, and that the costs of this appeal be paid one-half by the community and one-half by the husband.
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- (Syllabus hy Editorial Staff.) 1. Principal and Agent 148(2) — Knowledge of Agents — Imputation to Other Party. One who acquired note and mortgage on community property of husband and wife from his lawyers then acting as agents of the husband in selling the note, was not charged with knowledge of any want of authority of the lawyers to negotiate the note. 2. Husband and Wife 267(1) — Disposition of Property — Disability of Husband —Divorce Suit. With whatever motive a husband discontinued his divorce suit, the suit was discontinued, and the disability of the husband, under Rev. Civ. Code art. 150, to dispose of the immovables of the community, incident to the pend-ency of such suit, no longer existed. 3. Husband and Wife 271 — Community Property — Money Earned by Wife. By Rev. Civ. Code, art. 2402, money earned by a wife before institution of her separation suit belonged to the community, and its payment for account of the community after her institution of suit was simply payment of a community debt with community funds. 4. Husband and Wife, 268(1) — Community Debt — Costs of Separation Suit. Judgment for a wife in her suit for separation from bed and board, under Rev. Civ. Code, art. 2432, retroacted to date of filing of suit, so that the costs of suit taxed against husband are not chargeable to community, but to him separately. 5. Husband and Wife 268(1) — Separation — Judgment Against Husband — Chargeability to Community — Statute. Third person’s judgment against husband for debt accruing after wife’s institution of separation suit was a separate debt of the husband, not chargeable to the community; judgment in separation suit retroacting to date of filing under Rev. Civ. Code, art. 2432.