Copley v. Flint
Supreme Court of Louisiana
The judgment from which this appeal is taken, was rendered by the. District Court of Ouachita, King, J. The plaintiff alleges, that he sold to the defendant, Flint, for the sum of one thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, a tract of land in the parish of Ouachita, which he had purchased at public auction as the property of Daniel W. Cox, the other defendant; that though in the conveyance which he executed to Flint it is stated that this sum had been received by him in…
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The judgment from which this appeal is taken, was rendered by the. District Court of Ouachita, King, J. The plaintiff alleges, that he sold to the defendant, Flint, for the sum of one thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, a tract of land in the parish of Ouachita, which he had purchased at public auction as the property of Daniel W. Cox, the other defendant; that though in the conveyance which he executed to Flint it is stated that this sum had been received by him in cash, he had in fact received hut two hundred and seventy dollars, having taken a note for the balance, which was never…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
This case was before us at the last October term, and was then remanded for a new trial. See 16 La. 380. The result of the new trial was a judgment against the defendants, and they have appealed.
*128After an attentive consideration of the Case, and an examination of all the evidence laid before the jury, we find it impossible to' concur with them in the result to which they have come. We cannot regard this, under all the circumstances, as a case for which the law affords relief on the score of lesion; a relief founded upon the idea that the vendor has been driven by his necessities to make a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Copley v. Flint & CoxSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1840
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