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· 1/5/1903

Sleet v. Sleet

Citations

  • 109 La. 302
  • 33 So. 322
  • 1903 La. LEXIS 386

Syllabus

<p>ACCOUNTS STATED — PRESCRIPTION—APPLICATION OP PAYMENTS.</p> <p>1. The change in the law made by Act No. 78 of 1888, amending and re-enacting Rev. Oiv. Code, art. 3538, consists in applying the prescription of three years to accounts stated or rendered, and verbally or tacitly acknowledged, as well as to the “open” accounts to which it had previously applied.</p> <p>■2. Where money' and merchandise are drawn and received upon a running account, upon which there is a past-due balance, and upon which current entries are also being made, to the credit of the party so drawing and receiving, the payments so made, in the absence of instructions from the debtor, will be imputed to the debt longest due; i. e., the past-due balance.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>

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  • finding the respondent met her burden of demonstrating a grave risk of harm where the petitioner engaged in a prolonged course of abuse of the respondent that included an incident where he “nearly choked her to death” and had threatened to kill her
  • finding the respondent met her burden of demonstrating a grave risk of harm where the petitioner engaged in a prolonged course of abuse of the respondent that included an incident where he “nearly choked her to death” and had threatened to kill her
  • “Petitioner’s delay in filing the petition in this Court even after he knew of [child’s] location...counsels this Court against” ordering the child’s return

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Judges: Monroe

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