Schouest v. Schouest

The above two plaintiffs, Eddie J. Schouest and Notilio, Schouest, brought separate suits against the three defendants, Fred M., Harris J. and Abel L. Schouest, to rescind the sale of an undivided one-ninth interest each in and to a tract of land on Bayou Lafourche measuring one arpent front by forty arpents in depth. The allegations in both suits are practically the same.

In their separate petitions, each of the plaintiffs sets out how he became the owner of an undivided interest in the land, and each of them allege the sale of this interest to the three defendants, their brothers, for a…