Palangue v. Guesnon
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a petitory action for a lot of ground which the plaintiff alleges he purchased from the defendant, by public act, the 17th day of May, 1830, but that she continues in possession and refuses to deliver it up. He prays that he be decreed to be the true owner of said lot, and that possession be delivered to him, together with thirty dollars per month for the time she has withheld it from him.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a petitory action for a lot of ground which the plaintiff alleges he purchased from the defendant, by public act, the 17th day of May, 1830, but that she continues in possession and refuses to deliver it up. He prays that he be decreed to be the true owner of said lot, and that possession be delivered to him, together with thirty dollars per month for the time she has withheld it from him. The defendant pleaded a general denial. She admits she sold the plaintiff a lot, but denies it is the one he claims; and that the sale of it was…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
The defendant purchased from the estate of Pierre Denis Delaronde, a lot of ground in the suburb Marigny, measuring sixty feet front on Frenchmen-street and one hundred and twenty feet in depth and front on Morales-street. In 1830 she sold to plaintiff for one hundred and fifty dollars, a small portion of said lot, which is .described in the deed of sale as measuring thirty feet front on Frenchmen-street by sixty in depth. Under this conveyance, the plaintiff took possession of and occupied thirty feet front to Morales-street, by sixty in depth, leaving defendant in possession of the…
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