Yrle v. Hezeau

The plaintiff, who had agreed to' purchase of the defendants, certain real estate, sued to recover double the amount deposited by her for the alleged reason that the title is not good.

The defendants in their answer assert the validity of their title and ask that specific performance of plaintiff’s offer to purchase be decreed.-

The defects complained of are:

1st. That Mrs. Hezeau purchased the property with funds donated inter vivos by her mother and, hence subject to collation under Article .1228 R. C. C.

2nd. That Mrs. Robert and Miss Robert,, from whom Mrs. Hezeau purchased the property,…