Dutsch v. Snider

COVINGTON, Judge.

This litigation concerns the effect to be given an instrument dated April 5, 1979, *57purporting to be an act of credit sale and mortgage in the sum of $6,000.00 from Gertrude C. Johnson to Mary Dutsch Snider and Robert E. Snider of certain immovable property in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.1

On April 5,1979, Mrs. Dutsch, 92 years of age and recently released from the hospital, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Snider to the Sniders’ lawyer’s office in Covington, Louisiana, where they executed the instrument in question. At the same time, although the second instrument bears a later…