Otwell v. Vaughan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
1Opinion of the Court
O’NIELL, Chief Justice;
This case presents a new problem. The appellees, who were the plaintiffs, and for whom the .judgment was rendered, are asking for a reversal of the judgment and for the dismissal of their suit; and. the appellants, who were the defendants in the case, are asking for a dismissal of their appeal, or, in the alternative, for an affirmance of the judgment which they appealed from. This predicament is the result of an error of law, and a misunderstanding of the facts, on the part of the attorney who filed the suit for Harry Otwell. He sued for a partition, by licitation, of…
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