Tucker v. Liles

Decided August 15, 1834

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1834-08-15

Where a contract is entered into, while the party was sí femme covert, and some act is shown by her, to have taken place after she became a femme sole, by which she ratified it, it will be binding on her. So where the defendant is sued on her note, executed while a femme covert, for part of the price of a tract of land, and she retains possession of the land, after her husband died, it will be considered a ratification of the contract, and binding on her. Where a conintíf whiie^the party was a fan-Tome°Wact shown by her to Mter shelieeame a'K,imehe°ratf fiedit, it will he bl defendant is sued on her note, executed while a p^tóof5thepríce of a tract of land, and she retains possession of the land after her wufhecoíslderof the'atconha°ct and binding on h"'

Decided 1834-08-15

Martin J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court at this term,

¶2(August, 1834,) on the re-hearing. At the request of the appellant, a re-examination of this case, has taken place ; but it has resulted in the conviction, that our former judgment jg incorrect. It appears from a re-examination of the , . , , , evidence, that the appellant retained possession of the land, after the death of her husband, and thereby ratified the contract, on which the note is given, after she became a ' femme sole.

¶3It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment formerly rendered in this case, remain the unaltere¿ judgment of the court, as if no re-hearing had ever been granted.