Levy v. Ward
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL fi;om the Sixth Judicial District Court, parish of Morehouse. Vaughan, judge ad hoc. Eirst — Parol evidence is admissible for the purpose of correcting ah error or mistake in a written deed to land. Second — Parol evidence is admissible to show that such deed is not the repository of the intentions of the contracting parties. The sale of a thing belonging to another, is null and conveys no title.
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APPEAL fi;om the Sixth Judicial District Court, parish of Morehouse. Vaughan, judge ad hoc. Eirst — Parol evidence is admissible for the purpose of correcting ah error or mistake in a written deed to land. Second — Parol evidence is admissible to show that such deed is not the repository of the intentions of the contracting parties. The sale of a thing belonging to another, is null and conveys no title. C. C. 2452¿ 27 An. 492. Parol evidence is inadmissible to prove a sale of, or title to, an immovable. C. C. 2275, 22?6, 2444; 3 La. 460; 12 M 651; 10 B. 467; 9 B. 414; 12 An. 213 and 261 ; 17…
1Opinion of the Court
The'opinion of the Court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
The object of this suit is to cause to be judicially ■corrected an error alleged to have been committed in the description of certain real estate, which the plaintiff claims to have acquired, in 1873, from Gr. C. Ward, since deceased.
The complaint is, that the land was, by inadvertence or mistake, *1034described as being in section 20, instead of section 21, of township 22, in Morehouse parish, in this State,
As administratrix, representing the succession of G. O. Ward, the defendant, pleaded the general issue, denying specially that Ward ever…
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