Gaspard v. Siggio

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a companion case to Briggs v. Siggio, 313 So.2d 379, in which a separate decision is being rendered by us this date. In the companion case, we affirm a decision of the district judge rejecting plaintiff’s demand for specific performance of an option to purchase 40 acres of land from defendant. The basis of our decision in that case is that Briggs did not exercise the option in writing, as required not only by the express provisions of the option agreement but by the law of this State in cases involving immovables.

In the present case, Gaspard seeks to recover a real…