Schlater v. Brusle

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

This is a revocatory action, the object of which is to annul a judicial sale of a sugar plantation on a charge of fraud and collusion.

The claim of the plaintiff is, that the Star plantation situated a few miles from Plaquemine, containing about thirteen hundred acres, and cultivated as a sugar plantation, was purchased by the plaintiff in 1891 for eighteen thousand dollars — part of -the price having been paid in cash and part represented by notes secured by mortgage and vendor’s lien.

That Mrs. Elizabeth Dupuy, holding one of said notes for…