Lafon v. White
Supreme Court of Louisiana
' ATPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a petitory action, claiming in the alternative, a tract of land or its price, in the possession of the defendant, Maunsel White, and which he purchased from the vendees of the late Joshua Lewis.
Read the full summary
' ATPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a petitory action, claiming in the alternative, a tract of land or its price, in the possession of the defendant, Maunsel White, and which he purchased from the vendees of the late Joshua Lewis. The plaintiff claims, as heir of her father, the late Jean Pierre Lafon, one moiety of a tract of land, on the Mississippi, below New-Orleans, having eighteen and a half arpents front, by forty in depth, which her said father acquired at the sale of B. Lafon’s succession, and as universal heir in 1821; that her father died in 1822, having…
1Opinion of the Court
Mathews J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case the plaintiff claims, as heir instituted by the will of her father, J. P. Lafon, to one-half of his succession, an undivided moiety of a tract of land having eighteen and one-half arpents front on the Mississippi, with the ordinary depth of forty. The defendant White, called in warranty the heirs of Lewis, who undertook to support the title under which he holds. A judgment was rendered in the court below, which decreed to the plaintiff two-fifths of the land claimed, allowing time to ascertain by actual measurement the real quantity,…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Succession of BurnsideSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1883