Nicol v. Jacoby

This is a suit instituted by Mary B. Nicol and John A. Nicol for the purpose of annulling certain sales of real property and of certain machinéry and other property attached to the realty and forming part of it by destination, and of recovering, in the alternative, a certain promissory note.

Defendants, through curators ad hoc appointed to represent them, excepted to the suit on various grounds. These exceptions, or at least one of them, an exception of no cause of action, make it necessary to state the substance of the petition filed by plaintiffs. This we shall do in narrative form, and as…