Plaintiff, appellant, instituted a suit in the civil district court against *Page 154 the defendant, appellee, her husband, for a separation from bed and board. Nearly five months thereafter she filed a petition, in the same entitled and numbered suit, against John Arthus, a third party, in which she alleges that about two years before the filing of her suit for separation, a deed was registered in the conveyance office of the parish of Orleans, wherein the Suburban Building Loan Association conveyed to John M. Arthus five lots or portions of ground, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, in the third district of the city of New Orleans; that said property was purchased for the account of Alphonse Arthus, and it was placed in the name of John M. Arthus for convenience only, with intent to defraud petitioner of her community rights therein. The prayer is for a judgment decreeing the said property to belong to the community of acquets and gains existing between plaintiff and her husband, Alphonse Arthus.
The defendant in this proceeding excepted to the petition upon the ground that it disclosed no right and no cause of action. The exception of no cause of action was sustained, and plaintiff appealed. We think the judgment is correct. This is not a suit to bring property, once owned by the community, back into the community, after the community had been fraudulently dispossessed of it. The pleadings show that title to the property involved was never in the community. Appellant cites article 149, Civ. Code, and article 306, Code Prac., and four cases. We find that the cited cases and articles have no application to the facts presented. The cases are Hill v. Hill,
John Arthus was not a party to, he had no interest in or connection with, the suit of plaintiff against her husband for a separation from bed and board and the dissolution of the community existing between them.
This court has held that a sale of succession property cannot be attacked by way of opposition to the administrator's account, but the remedy is by a separate action. Succession of Scott, 41 La. Ann. 668, 6 So. 792. This ruling is cited with approval in Succession of McKnight, 44 La. Ann. 400, 10 So. 810, and Succession of Blancand, 48 La. Ann. 581, 19 So. 683. In the case of Lyons v. Fry,
For the reasons stated it is decreed that the judgment be and it is affirmed, at appellant's cost.
ROGERS, J., concurs in the decree. *Page 156
