Legal Opinion
Langford v. Spencer
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided December 1, 1939No. 6070PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMITER, Judge.
The ownership of a 120-acre tract of land situated in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, is contested in this petitory action.
On the sixth day of January, 1919, one Anthony Adams, whose then ownership is undisputed, mortgaged the property to the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans to secure the payment of a loan. The mortgage act contained the pact de non alien-ando.
The mortgagor, on July 17, 1930, conveyed such tract to J. W. Langford, and the latter on July 28, 1930, deeded it to W. C. Langford, the plaintiff in this suit. The deeds representing these transfers recited that the…
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