Tippet v. Jett
Supreme Court of Louisiana
westeun Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT Olí THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OP THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is an action instituted on a claim for rent.
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westeun Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT Olí THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OP THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is an action instituted on a claim for rent. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant (J. M. Jett) is indebted to her, in the sum of eight hundred dollars, due for the rent °f a tract of land, from the 10th of March, 1830, up to the time of bringing suit, 21st October, 1833. The defendant pleaded a general denial, and averred that the plaintiff was without title to the land for which she claims rent. That her title is null, because she claims in virtue of a probate sale, which was…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff claims four years rent of a plantation, at the rate of two hundred dollars per year. The defendant *362pleaded the general issue, denied the plaintiff’s title to the leased' premises, and avers himself to be the owner, by purchase, from several part owners, of the plantation in question.
Where a lessee is sued for the rent, and has "been in the undisturbed possession of' the premises under a lease, he cannot’ contest the lessor’s title. So, a lessee cannotavailhim-self of the purchase of the leased premises from other claimants : he entered as the lessor’s tenant, and his possession…
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