Voinche v. Town of Marksville
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Avoyelles; G. H. Couvillon, Judge. Action by Robert P. Voinche against the Town of Marksville. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
This is a suit to revoke a donation inter vivos, made in the year 1858 by Auguste Voinche, deceased, to the town of Marksville, of a certain lot of ground for the alleged permanent establishment thereon of a market house and for no other purpose. It was alleged that the act of donation, which was annexed to the petition, contained a condition that, if said market house was not established in conformity with the wishes of the donee, the donation should be null, and the lot of ground should revert back to the donor.
It was further alleged that the defendant, pretending to conform with the…
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