Babin v. Nolan

This case was before us last year, (4 Rob. 278,) and was remanded for further proceedings, for the purpose of ascertaining the value of such increase and ameliorations in the defendant’s land, as may have been the result of common labor, expenses and industry, during the existence of his marriage with the plaintiff’s sister, in conformity with the following rule, adopted by us, under art. 2377 of the Civil Code. We said, in our previous opinion, “ that the safest rule to be pursued would be, first, to put an estimate upon the value of the naked property, if unimproved at the time of the…