Jiovellina v. Minor
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the first district. The executor of the last will and testament of the plaintiff’s mother, conjointly with the the plaintiff’s guardian, sold to Stephen Minor, on the 19th of April, 1811, a house and lot in Bienville street, for the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum three thousand were paid at the time of sale ; two thousand four hundred thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents, to be paid in one year thereafter, and the…
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Appeal from the court of the first district. The executor of the last will and testament of the plaintiff’s mother, conjointly with the the plaintiff’s guardian, sold to Stephen Minor, on the 19th of April, 1811, a house and lot in Bienville street, for the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum three thousand were paid at the time of sale ; two thousand four hundred thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents, to be paid in one year thereafter, and the balance of two thousand sixty dollars and seventy-five cents, to be paid when . ,. . . . the vendors should raise a mortgage…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff states that a lot of hers was sold by the testamentary executors of her mother, from whom she inherited it, and her guardian, to the defendants’ ancestor, in 1811, and the premises being incumbered by a mortgage for a sum of about two thousand dollars, it was agreed that it should be retained by the vendee during one year, and then paid, if the mortgage was canceled, otherwise within thirty days after the vendee received notice of the canceling ; that a period of nineteen years had elapsed before *76the mortgage could be canceled, and notice being given to the defendants, they…
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