Morris v. Kleinpeter

ODOM, Justice.

Charity Gee, a colored woman, sold to the defendant on March 20, 1935, 190 acres of land in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, about 12 miles south of the City of Baton Rouge. The recited consideration was $1,-500, paid and to be paid as follows: The sum of $73.50 paid in cash; the purchaser assumed, and obligated himself to pay, a mortgage on the land amounting to $326 with interest due thereon at 8 per cent for one year, and the balance of the price was represented by 110 notes of $10, each, payable monthly without interest.

The deed stipulated that, “As a further consideration,…