Melancon v. Robichaux
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeau from tho court of the second district, for the parish of Lafourche Interior, the judge of the fourth district presiding. This is an action for the rescission of a sale of a fiatboat, fitted up to be used as a floating ball-room, on the Bayou Lafourche and the Mississippi Biver.
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Appeau from tho court of the second district, for the parish of Lafourche Interior, the judge of the fourth district presiding. This is an action for the rescission of a sale of a fiatboat, fitted up to be used as a floating ball-room, on the Bayou Lafourche and the Mississippi Biver. The plaintiff alleges that he contracted with the defendant for a fiatboat fitted up so as to be used for a ball room, and to be delivered to him at his domicil in the parish of Ascension, and for which he was to give seven hundred dollars. That on the first of July, 1839, the said boat was delivered and…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
This action is brought to annul the sale of a flatboat fitted up to be used as a ball-room, on the ground that at or before the time of the sale it had defects known to the defendant, which he fraudulently concealed from the plaintiff. The petition charges that before purchasing, the plaintiff informed defendant that he would not buy the flatboat if it leaked; and that defend- [99] ant represented the boat to be sound and in good order; and showing him that the pump would not draw, assured the plaintiff that the boat had not been pumped for six days; that on or about the first of July, 1839,…
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