Kenner v. Leon Godchaux Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monkoe, J.

This is a petitory action in which the plaintiff seeks to recover a certain plantation situated in the parish of St. Charles, and has appealed from a judgment maintaining a plea of estoppel interposed on behalf of the defendants.

The facts disclosed in the record are as follows, to-wit:

In May, 1867, plaintiff’s wife and her sister, Miss Fannie Hum-phries, purchased the plantation in question at sheriff’s sale, as evidence whereof a deed was executed, which contained the recital:. “ When P. M. Kenner being the highest and last bidder the said…