Von Puhl v. Caire & Graugnard
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Appeal from the 28th Judicial District Court, Parish of St. John the Baptist, No. 860. Honorable P. E. Edrington, Judge-
1Opinion of the Court
His Honor, JOHN ST PAUL,
rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:
Gaskins & Rolling were the owners of a plantation with a sugar house thereon.
*94About the year 1904 the sugar house wa,s destroyed by fire and the machinery was sold to plaintiff, who took possession and removed part thereof but allowed the rest to remain standing under an agreement that it might so remain until plaintiff was ready to remove it.
Some years later Gaskins & Bolling sold the plantation “together with the sugar house, steam engines and mills ’ ’ to defendants.
The latter claim that title to the machinery…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Folse v. TricheSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1904
- Gontier v. ThomasSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1843