Lewis v. Cochrane

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff instituted this suit to reform an act of sale into an act of mortgage on the ground of fraud and error and pleaded, in the alternative, for its annulment on the ground of lesion beyond moiety.

Defendant filed exceptions of no right or cause of action which were overruled and then answered denying the allegations of plaintiff’s petition and maintained that the act of sale “speaks for itself, and is not subject to explanation or attack” and, in the alternative, defendant pleaded that “further consideration” existed for the sale other than actually recited in the act.

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