Ricou v. Hart

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

This is an action to eject the lessee from the property leased to him by the plaintiff.

The latter leased the Hart Island' plantation to the former on the 2d day of February, 1894, for the term of fifteen years.

The consideration of the lease was the sum of twenty-seven hundred dollars, payable on the 1st day of September of each year, and the payment of the taxes on the property each year. The taxes for 1894 amounted to six hundred and twenty-eight dollars.

The defendant testified that he was informed by the sheriff that for a week after…