Curator of Grafton v. Wells
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAR PROM THE COURT OP THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OP THE DISTRCT PRESIDING. The plaintiffs sue for the recovery of three, thousand dollars and interest, as the price of a plantation adjudicated to the defendant T. J. Wells, at a probate sale of the estate of T. & E. Grafton.
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APPEAR PROM THE COURT OP THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OP THE DISTRCT PRESIDING. The plaintiffs sue for the recovery of three, thousand dollars and interest, as the price of a plantation adjudicated to the defendant T. J. Wells, at a probate sale of the estate of T. & E. Grafton. The defendants admit the sale and adjudication to one of them, but say the plantation was described in theproces verbal as containing three hundred and eighty arpens, and warranted to contain that quantity, and for which they purchased it; that it in fact only contains two hundred and eighty arpens, which is all that…
1Opinion of the Court
Ports», J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
A tract of land, part of the estate of one Grafton, was sold as containing three hundred and eighty arpens, situated on the left bank of bayou Rapides, in descending, and adjoining *536lands of P. Lamothe on one side, and lands of Wells on the other, being the last place of residence of the deceased. The quantity actually contained within these limits is two hundred and eighty arpens. The plantation has been opened fpr many years, and fences on each side marked the dividing lines between it and the adjoining tenements. The purchaser lives in the…
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