Murrin v. Sheldon

JANVIER, Judge.

J. W. Sheldon, in 1926 and subsequent years, was a real estate broker in the city of New Orleans. In obtaining his license as such, he furnished bond as required by Act No. 236 of 1920, the surety on the said bond being Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland. On November 1, 1926, the said Sheldon entered into a written contract with plaintiff, Mrs. Ruby Murrin, then the wife of Arthur L. Rosa-mond, under which plaintiff agreed to purchase a certain plot of land in the South Kenner subdivision in the parish of Jefferson for the sum of $750, of which she paid $150 in cash and for…