Verdun v. Gilmore
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Action by Mary Verdun against Walter T. Gilmore and others. Judgment for plaintiff was affirmed by the Court of Appeal, and E. & J. Verdun apply for certiorari or writ of review.
1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, J.
Applicants pray for the review and reversal of a judgment of the district court for the parish of St. Mary, affirmed by the Court of Appeal, sustaining a plea of estoppel, set up by the plaintiff in the above-entitled petitory action, against the right of the defendants to prove that the author, from whom plaintiff asserts title by inheritance, was not, at the time of her death, the owner of the property here claimed. The undisputed facts are that in 1844 plaintiff’s grandmother, Marcellite Verdun, obtained a patent for a certain quarter section of land; that by three acts of sale, the last…
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