Deville v. Couvillion

STATEMENT OF THE CASE.

REYNOLDS, J.

Ulric Deville leased from the owner, one Bellevue Bordelon, at $3.00 per acre, ten acres of land on which to make a crop during the year 1925, and had his lease duly recorded. Thereafter he planted, cultivated and “laid by” a. crop of cotton on the land so leased.

On June 13, 1925, the ten acres, along with other land, was sold under foreclosure of a vendor’s privilege and mortgage granted by Alfred C. Bordelon, through whom plaintiff’s lessor acquired title, and was purchased by the defendant, Purdy-Hess Company.

Purdy-Hess Company on becoming the adjudicatee…