Gay v. Larimore

The defense to the note sued on is that it was given in part payment of certain lands sold by plaintiff to defendant, and that the quantity he acquired is not the quantity he purchased. The question is whether the sale was one per aversionem, or whether it was a sale per acre.

Gay sold to Larimore the Mound Magnolia plantation, situated in the parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, and composed of the following tracts of land, to wit:

First — A tract of land acquired by Gay by deed from the sheriff of the parish of East Baton Rouge, and adjudicated to him at sheriff’s sale on the…