Morris v. Abat
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. . This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff claims a lot of ground in the city of New-Orleans, now in the possession, and claimed by the defendant, Abat. The vendors of the latter were called in warranty.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. . This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff claims a lot of ground in the city of New-Orleans, now in the possession, and claimed by the defendant, Abat. The vendors of the latter were called in warranty. The facts of the case are accurately stated in the following opinion of the district judge, who tried the cause in the first instance ; “ This is a suit for a lot of land under circumstances every way similar to the case of Morris vs. Crocker, reported 4 Louisiana Reports, 147. The only difficulty that has arisen, is between…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff succeeded in recovering the land for which he commenced his suit. The defendant at the same time had judgment over against L. Millaudon, his warrantor, for the sum of three thousand dollars, that being the amount, or sum at which the land was estimated, in a contract of exchange between these two parties. Millaudon also had judgment over againsL Macarty, his vendor, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, the price which the latter received in his sale to the former.
Millaudon and Macarty have both appealed to this court.
The counsel for the…
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