Williams v. Delacroix Corporation

JANVIER, Judge.

• This is a suit to recover a portion of the amounts paid to defendant, or to its predecessor in title, by plaintiffs, under an uncompleted contract which plaintiffs contend was an agreement having as its object the sale of real estate, but which defendant maintains contemplated the leasing of the said land for trapping purposes.

On March 17, 1927, Acme Land & Fur Company was the owner of certain salt marsh land in the parish of St. Bernard, which said land was valuable mainly because of the presence thereon of numerous fur-bearing animals known as muskrats. On that day the said…