Joseph v. Moreno
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST DISTRICT. The plaintiff, Jean Joseph, instituted this suit to compel the defendant Moreno to the performance of a promise given the plaintiff, to convey to him one-half of a tract of land, situate in the parish of Plaquemines, of three-and-a-half ar-pents front, and also to be declared part owner of a slave in possession of defendant. , The plaintiff adduced a written promise from Moreno to convey him one-and-a-half arpents of the…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST DISTRICT. The plaintiff, Jean Joseph, instituted this suit to compel the defendant Moreno to the performance of a promise given the plaintiff, to convey to him one-half of a tract of land, situate in the parish of Plaquemines, of three-and-a-half ar-pents front, and also to be declared part owner of a slave in possession of defendant. , The plaintiff adduced a written promise from Moreno to convey him one-and-a-half arpents of the above-mentioned tract. In regard to the slave, the testimony shewed him to be paraphernal property. There was judgment for…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This suit is based on a promise made in writing by the de-fcndapt, to sell to the plaintiff one-and-a-hálf arpents of land’ *461front on the Mississippi, situated in the parish of Plaquemines. The court below decreed that a conveyance should be made by the former to the latter, of an undivided half of three-and-a-half arpents, (which had been bought by the defendant at a sale of the estate of one Gautier,) on condition that one-half the price of the whole tract should be refunded to him by the plaintiff. From this decree the defendant appealed.
Eastern District, June 1831 A written promise to sell…
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