Pharr v. Shadel
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberia; T. Don Poster, Judge. Action by Elias A. Pharr against H. H. Shade! H. G. Turner and others intervene. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosts', J.
A certain tract of timbered swamp land situated in the parish of Iberia, containing 350 acres, stood of record in the name of Sophia Turner. David Todd, attorney at law, persuaded Mrs. Sophia Schindeldecker, an illiterate person, unable to sign her name, who during a former marriage had borne the name of Turner, that this land belonged to her, and induced her to reluctantly give him a power of attorney to sell it.
Todd at once sold the land to Elias A. Pharr for $499.17. Of this he gave $100 to Mrs. Schindeldecker.
Pharr acted in good faith, but Mrs. Schindeldecker did not own the land, and the…
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