Newman v. Gleason
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E. K. Skinner, Judge. Action by May Newman against Walter L. Gleason. Judgment for plaintiff, and'defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
Defendant has appealed from a judgment condemning him to accept title to certain real estate which he had agreed to purchase from plaintiff, and the title to which he subsequently rejected on the ground that it is defective, unmarketable, and suggestive of litigation. He alleges various defects, but has confined himself in this court to the objection that in certain assessments, upon which were predicated tax sales forming links in plaintiffs’ chain of title, the property was insufficiently described for the purposes of its identification. The case was tried in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Tobin v. United States Safe Deposit & Savings BankSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
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