Clarke v. Lassus
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Charles A. O’Niell, Judge. Action by Lillian Lyons Clarke against John F. Lassus. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
On January 24, 1908, Mrs. Louisa Como Lassus, wife of John F. Lassus, by whom she was aided, authorized, and assisted, granted, bargained, and sold to Mrs. Lillian Lyons Clarke, widow, for the purported cash price of $6,926.30, a certain tract of land, known as the “Crescent Sugar Plantation,” situated in the parish of St. Mary, being the same property acquired by the said Mrs. Lassus from Mrs. M. A. Lassus in 1903 by duly recorded act of sale.
On the same day the said Mrs. Clarke, widow, and the said Mrs. L. C. Lassus, authorized by her husband, entered into an agreement, by which the said…
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