Ronaldson & Puckett Co. v. Bynum
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; Harney Félix Brunot, Judge. Action by the Ronaldson & Puckett Company, Limited, against Margaret C. Bynum. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
This is an action on the part of plaintiff to eompel the defendant, Mrs. Margaret C. Bynum, and her husband, Walter W. Bynum, to aid and authorize his wife to sign an act of sale.
She signed a contract of lease of her plantation, known as the “Xstrouma,” on August 1, 1900. In the lease there was a clause inserted which gave to her lessee the right or privilege of buying the Istrouma plantation for $9,500.
In the year 1898 she sold the place to D. N. Barrow for the sum of $9,500.
Some time afterward Barrow and she canceled the sale and Barrow retransferred it to her.
After the retransfer Mrs.…
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