Copeland v. Mickie
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the third district for the parish of West Feliciana, the parish judge presiding. This is an action for the rescission of a sale, alleged to have been procured by threats and violence, and for damages.
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Appeal from the court of the third district for the parish of West Feliciana, the parish judge presiding. This is an action for the rescission of a sale, alleged to have been procured by threats and violence, and for damages. The plaintiff alleges that in April, 1835, he became a partner in equal right with James F. Mickie in the ownership and cultivation of a plantation and gang of slaves, one undivided half of which was on the above date conveyed to him by said Mickie, who was previously the sole proprietor thereof. That they continued to cultivate and carry on said plantation, alternately…
1Opinion of the CourtMokpiiy, J.
This action is brought to annul and set aside a sale alleged to have been extorted from plaintiff by threats and violence on the part of defendant, and to claim $30,000 in damages. The petition charges, that on the 8th of April, 1835, plaintiff became a partner in equal right with the defendant in the ownership and cultivation of a tract of land near the mouth of Red River, con*177taining about nineteen hundred acres, together with eleven slaves and all the improvements, stock, farming utensils, &c., appertaining to it; one undivided half of all which property was conveyed to the petitioner by…
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