Legal Opinion
Hawthorne v. Clark
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 15, 1887No. 9859PublishedCited by 5 opinions
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Houston, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Todd, J.
William Clark on the l'7th of December, 1875, conveyed the property described in the pleadings being an immovable situated in the city of New Orleans, to the defendant, then a Mrs. Mary Quirk. A few weeks subsequently he married her. The parties afterward separated and are living apart.
On the 2.9th of December, 1885, Clark purports to have sold the the same property to the plaintiff, his son-in-law, for $2800, on a credit of one', two and three.years. The instalments represented by the promissory notes of the plaintiffs for |100 each.
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2Cited by5 opinions
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