White v. Bergstedt

The appeal in this ease is from a judgment rejecting the demands of the plaintiffs at their cost. They sued for the rescission of the sale of a tract of land situated in Calcasieu parish, alleging lesion beyond moiety as their cause of action.

The defendant acquired the land from the plaintiffs on April 25, 1923, for $700, which price, the deed recites, was paid in cash. Thereafter the defendant sold two parcels of the land to different purchasers; she. sold an undivided one-sixteenth interest in the oil, gas, and other minerals beneath the surface of a part of it to another person; and she…