Courrege v. Colgin

Citations

• 51 La. Ann. 1069
• 25 So. 942
• 1899 La. LEXIS 522

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. The fruits and revenues of the wife’s separate property, administered by the. husband, fall into the community.</p> <p>2. Where the husband, for the community, cultivates a plantation, the separate property of the wife, the Indebtedness incurred in such cultivation is a lia bility of the community and the wife cannot be individually held for same.</p> <p>S. And this Includes the ordinary repair account of the plantation, by which-the same is kept in a fair state of preservation and deterioration prevented.</p> <p>4. This is to be differentiated from the expense incurred by which improve, ments of a substantial, permanent character are added to the wife’s separate estate. In the latter case, the rule of law may well be invoked which holds the wife liable for the cost of such betterments whether she retains the1 administration of the property or abandons It to her husband.</p>