Brusle v. Hamilton

The plaintiffs alleging they have a tacit mortgage on the lands which their natural tutrix sold to the defendant, Mrs. Downes, in 1854, and that by a clause in the sale the vendee agreed to pay each heir his virile share, on arriving at the age of majority, out of the price remaining in her hands reserved as protection against their tacit mortgage, sue her to recover the sum of $2021 04, due each of the plaintiffs, and also to enforce the tacit mortgage which they claim on said lands. They also sue to annul, for simulation, the sale of the lands from Dupuy and Greaud by their tutrix in 1858,…