Montgomery v. Sawyer
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
The controversy in this case relates to a certain plantation in the parish of Plaquemines, called the “ New Hope or Cedar Grove Plantation.” The appellee, Sawyer, claims it as purchaser at sheriff’s sale under a judgment rendered in February, 1872, by the Fifth District Court of Orleans, at the suit of one James E. Zunts against William and Haywood Stackhouse. The appellant claims under a mortgage 'executed in 1873, by Sarah F. Brooks, widow of Haywood Stackhouse, and tutrix of his minor heirs. It is conceded that the plantation belonged to William and Haywood Stackhouse at the time of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Norton v. JamisonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1871
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