Melancon's Heirs v. Robichaud's Heirs
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Dis. APPEAL pjtOAE THE COURT OP THE PIPTH DISTRICT POR THE PARISH OP ST. MARTIN, THE JUDGE OP THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This case has several times been before this court in various forms, and between different parties, hut in relation to the same original matter. The last time it appeared in this court it was remaiided for a new trial; on the question of the amount of damages the warrantors were liable to pay. See 16 La.
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Western Dis. APPEAL pjtOAE THE COURT OP THE PIPTH DISTRICT POR THE PARISH OP ST. MARTIN, THE JUDGE OP THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This case has several times been before this court in various forms, and between different parties, hut in relation to the same original matter. The last time it appeared in this court it was remaiided for a new trial; on the question of the amount of damages the warrantors were liable to pay. See 16 La. Reports, 151. On. the return of the case to the District Court, witnesses were called to prove the losses and damage the plaintiffs had sustained by the eviction of 3…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
This case which was before us last September term, on the recourse in warranty of the heirs of Melancon against the heirs of Freme Robichaud, was then remanded in order to assess the value of the three arpents of land of which Duhamel, the vendee of the heirs of Melangon, had been evicted in 1824: 16 La. Rep. 156. After hearing the evidence adduced by the parties, the judge of the inferior court allowed to the defendant’s vendors $1950, as the value of the three arpents in question, with interest at the rate of five per cent, per annum, from the date of the eviction, to wit: The 21st of *359Septem…
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