Rhodes v. Rhodes
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE- COVET OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTEICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action instituted by Aseneth P. Rhodes, widow of Henry Rhodes, deceased, and as tutrix of her minor children, against Sarah Rhodes, widow of John Rhodes, and tutrix of the minor children, to recover one half of a tract or section of land, which it is alleged, John Rhodes in his lifetime bound himself to convey to his said brother Henry, by a penal bond in the sum of…
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE- COVET OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTEICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action instituted by Aseneth P. Rhodes, widow of Henry Rhodes, deceased, and as tutrix of her minor children, against Sarah Rhodes, widow of John Rhodes, and tutrix of the minor children, to recover one half of a tract or section of land, which it is alleged, John Rhodes in his lifetime bound himself to convey to his said brother Henry, by a penal bond in the sum of two thousand dollars, on the condition that he, John Rhodes, was to use all lawful means and industry to obtain a…
1Opinion of the Court
Mathews, J,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was commenced by the widow of Henry Rhodes* as representing her minor children, in her capacity of tutrix, against the tutrix of the children of John Rhodes. The action is founded on a bond or writing, obligatory, in which the ancestor of the defendants bound himself to convey, by sufficient title, one half of a tract of land, containing six hundred and forty acres, to Henry Rhodes, the father of the plaintiffs.
At the time this bond was made, John Rhodes, the obligor, had no absolute title to the property, but calculated on obtaining it…
2Cited by4 opinions
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- Succession of DasteSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1969
- Herber v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1895
- Reinerth v. RhodySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1900