Angelette v. Hardie

FRUGE, Justice.

In this suit plaintiff has joined a claim for $1,000 sounding in tort, with an action to annul an act of sale by which his maternal grandmother conveyed a certain piece of real property to the defendant for the recited sum of $1,000. The plaintiff sets up three alternative grounds for annulling the sale; first, that the sale was made as a result of duress and undue influence and without consideration; second, that if there was consideration given as recited in the act that the same was a subterfuge and was returned to the purchaser; and third, that there was lesion beyond…