Melancon's Heirs v. Robechaud's Heirs
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF ST. MARTIN, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This case involves a series of litigated contests, remarkable in the history of our jurisprudence, beginning in the year 1819, coming down to the present time, and still pending.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF ST. MARTIN, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This case involves a series of litigated contests, remarkable in the history of our jurisprudence, beginning in the year 1819, coming down to the present time, and still pending. This legal controversy has been prolonged from peculiar circumstances, until nearly all the original parties have died off, and the second and third generations are destined to battle the glorious uncertainty of the law, to a sad conclusion, and reap the bitter fruits of an unprofitable controversjq when…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
The history of this case is a long one, and may be read by the curious in several volumes of our Reports. See 10 Martin, 225. 3 Martin, N. S., 7 and II. 4 Louisiana Reports, 362 and 366. 7 Idem., 286, and 11 Idem., 317. Suffice it to state, for the purpose of the opinion, that Jean Duhamel, •having been finally evicted of three arpents of a tract office arpents of land, which he had purchased from the heirs of Charles Melanin, the cause was remanded for the assessment of his damages against his warrantors. The curator of the estate of Duhamel, who had died before any further proceedings were…
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