Rochon v. Lecatt
Supreme Court of Alabama
In August, 182S, Nannette Rochon filed a bill in Chancery in the Mobile Circuit Court, against Littleton Lecatt, praying relief against a judgment at law which Lecatt had obtained against her, and in which he had recovered possession of a lot of ground in Mobile, and damages.
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In August, 182S, Nannette Rochon filed a bill in Chancery in the Mobile Circuit Court, against Littleton Lecatt, praying relief against a judgment at law which Lecatt had obtained against her, and in which he had recovered possession of a lot of ground in Mobile, and damages. She charged in her bill, that in 1818, Mrs Anne Lecatt sold and conveyed the lot to one J. Champcnois; that Champenois conveyed to one Dameron; he to McLoskey, and McLoskey to her; that Mrs Lecatt was formerly the widow of one Thomas Surtill, and that in 1813, she intermarried with L. Lecatt; that previously to her…
1Opinion of the Court
By JUDGE SAFFOLD.
The bill prays a specific performance of the ante miptial contract, as far as the appellant is interested, and for relief against the operation of the judgment at law which the appellee has obtained against her. The answer does not deny any of the material facts charged, but rests the defence on the legal and equitable validity of the appellees title, and the confirmation it has received from the judgment at law rendered m his favor, in the suit between the same parties, and which has been recently affirmed in this Court.
That the estate was an inheritance of which the wife…
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