O'Kelly v. Ferguson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twenty-third Judicial District Court for the Parish of Tensas. S. Chas. Young, J., ad hoc. Statement of the Oasb.
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APPEAL from the Twenty-third Judicial District Court for the Parish of Tensas. S. Chas. Young, J., ad hoc. Statement of the Oasb. Plaintiff claimed from James B. Ferguson and Kimbal P. Ferguson, the defendants, the sum of twenty-four hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents, with interest as stated, subject to certain credits as the holder of three promissory notes executed by the defendants, payment of which were secured by special mortgage on certain described property in the parish of Tensas. Defendants denied any indebtedness to plaintiff. They admitted that they were the owners of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
On the 4th of January, 1893, the defendants (Ferguson) leased to O. O. Knowles for the period of . five years commencing in January, 1893, and ending January, 1898, the Wood-burn plantation, in the parish of Tensas,-for and in consideration of a rent of three thousand dollars. The rent was represented by five notes of Knowles of six hundred dollars each, payable on or before the first day of December of the years 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898. On the 15th day of May, 1893, the defendants (Ferguson) mortgaged certain property in…
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