Marks v. Landry
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the District Court of Ascensión., Nicholls, J.* cited Domat, lib. II., tit. 7, sect. 1, § 8. Civil Code, art. 2427. Code Nap. 1599. Barfield v. Hewlett, 4 La., 118. Perryman v. Demaret, 11 La., 347. Russell v. Favier et al, 18 La., 584.
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
The petitioner claims of the defendant a raft of timber, his property, or its value, which he lays at #546. The defence is, that the defendant purchased the raft from one John Warden, who was in possession of it; that if the plaintiff be the owner of the raft, as he alleges, he is bound by the act of Warden, who was his agent, and cannot recover without reimbursing to the defendant what he paid for it. Five juries have decided this case in favor of the defendant, and their verdicts have been invariably set aside by the distriot judges, who presided at the trials, The plaintiff, despairing of…
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