Wright v. Roussel

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

The petitioner complains, that under a writ of seizure and sale, issued on a judgment against him, the sheriff has advertised for sale, as his property, “ a certain tract of land, situated in the parish of Terrebonne, and containing six hundred and forty superficial arpents, and bounded, on the 12th of August, 1836, above by lands belonging to Widow H. S. Thibodeaux, and now R. R. Barrow, and below by lands then belonging to Thomas R. Shields, now R. R. Barrow.” He alleges that he has never been legally notified of the seizure; and that…