Antoinette Hébert, wife of Jean Rosemond Landry, seeks to recover a debt from Frame A. Woods. Antoinette Hébert Landry represents that, in 1842, Amaranthe Landry, widow of the late Jean Baptiste Hébert, sold a plantation and slaves to Isham F. and Erasmus P. Woods for the sum of $28,000. By the act of sale, a mortgage was placed on the property to secure $17,040, which represented the portion of the sale’s proceeds to be paid to the late Landry’s minor children when they came of age. In 1844, Isham F. Woods departed this life and his interest in the property was bought by Erasmus, who assumed all obligations toward the debt. In 1845, Antoinette, one of the late Landry’s children, was married, and thus emancipated and entitled to receive her share of the sale’s proceeds. However, she never received any money. Erasmus P. Woods is now dead and Frame A. Woods has been appointed testamentary executor. Antoinette therefore prays that Frame be ordered to pay her share of $5,680 in the sale’s proceeds, plus interest at the rate of 10% per annum from the date of her marriage. She also prays that the mortgaged property be sold to satisfy her claim.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: West Baton Rouge Parish Courthouse, Port Allen, Louisiana
