M'Donough v. Copeland
Supreme Court of Louisiana
ArrEAI, FROM THE PARISH COURT for' the parish and city of NEW-ORLEANS. The plain tiff' became the purchaser of a parcel of ground in the parish of Orleans, sold at sheriff’s sale, under a judgment and execution obtained by the New-Orleans Canal and Banking Company, and others, against one Robert Copeland, for the sum of nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.
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ArrEAI, FROM THE PARISH COURT for' the parish and city of NEW-ORLEANS. The plain tiff' became the purchaser of a parcel of ground in the parish of Orleans, sold at sheriff’s sale, under a judgment and execution obtained by the New-Orleans Canal and Banking Company, and others, against one Robert Copeland, for the sum of nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. The sale of this property took place on the 12th January, 1835. On the 24th day of April, 1835, M‘Donough obtained . from the clerk of the Parish Court, a monition under the act of 1834, for the assurance and protection of titles…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff, in order to be quieted in the title to a piece of property purchased at a sale under an execution against *310tbe defendant, obtained from the clerk of the court a general citátion or monition, which he caused to be published in the newspapers, under provisions of the act of 1834, “for the assu- ' ranee and protection of titles to purchasers at judicial sales.”
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