Perron v. Maillan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. AFFEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SECOND PRESIDING. This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendant, a tract of land on the Mississippi, in virtue of a sheriff’s sale. The defendant holds the land in controversy by a regular sale and purchase by authentic act, subsequent to the sale to the plaintiff by the sheriff.
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Eastern Dist. AFFEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SECOND PRESIDING. This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendant, a tract of land on the Mississippi, in virtue of a sheriff’s sale. The defendant holds the land in controversy by a regular sale and purchase by authentic act, subsequent to the sale to the plaintiff by the sheriff. On the trial the plaintiff offered the sheriff’s deed as evidence of his title, which being opposed and rejected by the court, from a judgment rendered against him, he appealed. argued the…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The plaintiff in this case sues to recover a tract of land, in the possession of the defendant, of three arpents, front' on the-Mississippi, in the parish of West Baton Rouge. He claims-title under a sale to him by T. G. Morgan, who, he alleges; acquired it by purchase from Maximilian Leblanc, by whom it had been purchased,, on the 21st January, 1828, at a sheriff’s sale, in the suit of Leblanc vs. Firmin Guidry, the *522tract of land having been sold as the property of Baptiste Guidry, the surety, in a twelve months’ bond.
The sheriff’s deed executed and duly recorded in the clerk’s office, from…
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