Legal Opinion

Stille v. Shull

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 15, 1889No. 241Published

APPEAL from tlie Eleventh District Court, Parish of Sabine. Person, J. All"irregulavities and informalities of a probate sale are cured by the lapse of five years. Passiana vs. Towell, 21 Ann. 584; Woods vs. Lee, 21 Ann. 505; R. S. 3392, 2376; R. C. C. 3543. Irregularities and defects growing out of any judicial sale are as well cured by the lapse of live years as by -a judgment in a monition proceeding.

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APPEAL from tlie Eleventh District Court, Parish of Sabine. Person, J. All"irregulavities and informalities of a probate sale are cured by the lapse of five years. Passiana vs. Towell, 21 Ann. 584; Woods vs. Lee, 21 Ann. 505; R. S. 3392, 2376; R. C. C. 3543. Irregularities and defects growing out of any judicial sale are as well cured by the lapse of live years as by -a judgment in a monition proceeding. R. S. 2376; Roberts vs. Zansler, 33 Ann. 205. . A judicial sale cannot be attacked in a collateral manner. Louque’s Digest, Bale X, Ros. 2, 3; Dixey vs. Mandell, 23 Ann. 499; Anderson vs.…

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On the Merits.

This is a petitory action instituted to recover from the defendant the southwest quarter of northeast quarter and north half of northwest quarter, section 27, township 8, north range 12 west, situated in Sabine parish.

Plaintiff claims by purchase at the succession sale of Robert B. Stille, on 20th June, 1883. The defendant was in possession of the property, and answered denying that the succession of R. B. Stille, from whom plaintiff claims title, ever had any title to said property, and that if said Stille ever owned said property it was not inventoried among the effects of his…

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  1. Sherer v. HodgsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1832

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