Heirs of Wells v. Compton
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE FIFTH PRESIDING. The plaintiffs sue for the recovery of one thousand five hundred arpents of land on Bayou Bosuf, on which the defendants reside, and which was purchased from the plaintiffs’ ancestor, Levi Wells, as appears by written agreement dated 20th January, 1808, but not recorded until 1815. The agreement was conditional that no title was to be made to the land by the vendor, until complete payment.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE FIFTH PRESIDING. The plaintiffs sue for the recovery of one thousand five hundred arpents of land on Bayou Bosuf, on which the defendants reside, and which was purchased from the plaintiffs’ ancestor, Levi Wells, as appears by written agreement dated 20th January, 1808, but not recorded until 1815. The agreement was conditional that no title was to be made to the land by the vendor, until complete payment. The price stipulated, was three thousand dollars, payable in three instalments. The plaintiffs allege not more than the first…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiffs, heirs at law of Levi Wells, deceased, claim a tract of land in the possession of the defendants.
The answer admits that the land claimed once belonged to the plaintiffs’ ancestor, but that ■ the defendants acquired title from him by an act of sale for the price of three thousand dollars, which they duly paid.
There was judgment for the defendants, and the plaintiffs appealed.
The appellees introduced a document styled, “memorandum of an agreement, and bargain, and sale,” between the plaintiffs’ ancestor and one of the defendants, in the year 1808, by which the former sells to the…
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