Hooper v. Ruiz

WILLIAM F. WOODS, Judge.

This is an action by Irene Hooper, widow of Joseph Emile, an 84-year old colored woman, against John E. Ruiz to annul the sale of a house and lot located at 2609 Son-iat Street in the City of New Orleans. The plaintiff relies on two grounds for an annulment of the sale, the first being that her signature to the act of sale was obtained by fraud and error in that she thought she was signing an act of mortgage at the time *480and on the further ground of lesion beyond moiety.

The only question in the case is whether the plaintiff has proven her claim by a preponderance of the…