Legal Opinion

Culverhouse v. Marx

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 15, 1887No. 1184PublishedCited by 2 opinions

PPEAL from the Third District Court, Parish of Union. Holstead, Special Judge.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

The plaintiffs, as heirs of their mother, Mary Culverhouse, sue to recover one undivided half of the property described in the petition, which was once the property of the community that existed between the said Mary Culverhouse and her husband Win. Culverhouse, both deceased.

The defendant called in warranty his vendor, James Pearson. They both answered, and from a judgment in their favor the plaintiffs have appealed.

In their answers among other defenses set up, were those of estoppel and res adjudieata.

These pleas are founded on the following…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Phillips-Jones Corp. v. CaskeyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1930
  2. Thornton v. WillisLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1958

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