Phelps v. Reinach
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Fitjlitor, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion, of the Court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
This is an action to compel compliance by defendant with an adjudication of real estate, made to him on February 14, 1885.
In justification of liis refusal, the defendant charges that plaintiff has no valid title to the property, because, at the date of his pretended purchase, March 8,-1884, his vendor was notoriously insane and actually incarcerated in an insaue asylum, to his knowledge and to that of liisagent, who officiated as such in the act of sale.
The evidence shows that on August 20,1870, E. F. Stockmeyer gave to Carl Stockmeyer…
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