Selby v. Williams

This is an appeal from a judgment maintaining an exception of no cause of action.

The plaintiff, Dr. Alvin J. Smith, alleges that on the 17th day of October, 1930, he agreed to purchase, and Branel .J. Braud agreed to sell, certain real estate in the city of New Orleans; that he deposited with J. Henry Blache, a real estate agent, $375, “on account of the purchase pricce of said property for the account of B. J. Braud”; that it developed that the property which Braud had agreed to sell did not belong to him, but to his wife, Emma Cyrus, who refused to sign the agreement of sale and refused to…