Demaret v. Hawkins

This is an action for the recission of a sale of immovable property on the ground of lesion beyond moiety.

The defendant admits the purchase, but avers that the price stipulated, and the onerous conditions imposed upon him, were the full value of the property at the time he acquired it.

The ease was tried before a jury, who limited their verdict to the finding of the following facts:

1st. That the real consideration of the sale was $17,830 00.

*4842d. That the property was worth on the day it was sold $37,923 80.

The defendant has appealed from the judgment rendered against him on this verdict.

It is…