Legal Opinion

Hall v. Nevill

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 15, 1848PublishedCited by 22 opinions

APPEAL by the defendants from a judgment of the District Court of West Feliciana, Penn, J. There was a motion to dismiss this appeal, on the ground that one of the defendants had given no appeal bond.

1Opinion of the Court

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Slidell, J.

There is a motion to dismiss the appeal as to one of the defendants. It comes too late, not having been made within three judicial days after the record was filed. See O'Reilly v. McLeod, 2 Ann. Rep. 138.

This suit is upon notes given for the price of land, and the defendants resist the payment upon the ground of a deficiency in the quantity. They ask the *327reeision of ths sale, or, at least, a reduction of the price. The land was adjudicated to the defendant Stephen Nevill, at a syndic’s sale of the estate of the insolvent, Dunbar, by the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Pepper v. DunlapSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1844

3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Bonvillain v. BodenheimerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
  2. Collins v. SlocumLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1975
  3. Parish of Jefferson v. Texas Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1939
  4. Lewis v. KingSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1925
  5. Whitney Nat. Bank v. Little Creek Oil Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1947

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