Childress v. Allin
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE EIGHTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF LIVINGSTON, JUDGE JONES, OF THE DISTRICT, PRESIDING. This is a petitory action, iu which the plaintiff sues to recover a section or six hundred and forty acres of land. He claims under an act of sale from one R. Duncan, who purchased the land in question at sheriff’s sale, under an execution and judgment obtained by T. G. Davidson vs. ffm, and Stephen Allin, for one hundred dollars.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE EIGHTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF LIVINGSTON, JUDGE JONES, OF THE DISTRICT, PRESIDING. This is a petitory action, iu which the plaintiff sues to recover a section or six hundred and forty acres of land. He claims under an act of sale from one R. Duncan, who purchased the land in question at sheriff’s sale, under an execution and judgment obtained by T. G. Davidson vs. ffm, and Stephen Allin, for one hundred dollars. The sheriff’s deed recites, that in virtue of a writ of fieri facias, from the Parish Court of Livingston, against the goods, &c., of Wm. and Stephen…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
In this case, the dismissal of the appeal is asked, on the insufficiency of the clerk’s certificate; which does not state that the record contains all the evidence on which the case was tried, except under an and so forth. But there is a statement or note of the evidence, made by the judge, in which the different documents produced in evidence, are stated, and marked by their titles and letters. One of these documents, is a judgment under which the land claimed is alleged to have been sold, which is described in the following words: “Judgment No. 4, T. G. Davidson vs. Wm. and Stephen Allin.”…
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