Butler v. Wilson

GARDNER, Justice.

The suit was originally an action' of ejectment by Jesse A. Wilson against George Butler to recover certain lands described in the complaint and embraced in a mortgage executed by said Butler, the owner, and his wife, to the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans. This mortgage was foreclosed, the bank becoming the purchaser. Thereafter, in May, 1936, the bank conveyed the property to said Wilson, and this constitutes the chain of title upon which Wilson, the plaintiff in the ejectment, relies.

Pending the ejectment suit Wilson learned that Butler’s defense was that the property…