Pike v. Evans
Supreme Court of the United States
Ebjroe. to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. This is a petitory action brought to recover a certain plantation in. Louisiana. The plaintiff (now defendani/'in error) claimed the land under an act of donation from her uncle, Ackley Perkins, passed the 5th of September, 1861. Perkins had purchased the land at sheriff’s sale made Aug. 8, 1861, under a vendor’s lien, and gave a twelvemonth’s bond for the purchase-money.
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Ebjroe. to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. This is a petitory action brought to recover a certain plantation in. Louisiana. The plaintiff (now defendani/'in error) claimed the land under an act of donation from her uncle, Ackley Perkins, passed the 5th of September, 1861. Perkins had purchased the land at sheriff’s sale made Aug. 8, 1861, under a vendor’s lien, and gave a twelvemonth’s bond for the purchase-money. One Williams, and William S. Pike, the defendant below (now plaintiff in error), were his sureties on this bond. The bond not being paid, a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
Sundry bills of exception were taken in the course of the trial of this action, but as the one quoted in the preceding statement of the .case was, in our view, well taken, and is decisive, it is unnecessary to advert to them further.
By a law of Louisiana, passed March 10,1884, sect. 4, it was enacted, —■
“ That all informalities connected with or growing out of any sale made by a parish judge, sheriff, auctioneer, or other public officer, shall, after the lapse of five years from the time of making the same, be prescribed against by those claiming under such sales, whether against minors,…
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