Carrano v. Colombel

Plaintiff instituted this suit to enforce specific performance of a contract to sell certain real estate situated in the city of New Orleans. Defendant set up that the contract was not binding upon her, because her signature thereto had been obtained'by duress. The judgment was for plaintiff, and defendant appealed.

An.examination of the record discloses the utter failure of defendant to make out her defense. She does not pretend that plaintiff exercised any duress whatever upon her. According to her answer, the duress of which she complains was that of the real estate agent to whom she had…