Burns v. Rivero

ODOM, Justice.

By notarial act dated August 9, 1934, Mrs. Hazel Burns, divorced wife of George Sidney Graham, purchased from Mrs. Dolores Marie Rivero, widow of Theodule Fossier, certain real estate consisting of a lot of ground and the improvements thereon. The consideration was $7500, $4000 of which was paid in cash and the balance in the assumption of certain mortgages resting on the property.

Mrs. Burns, the purchaser, brought the present suit against Mrs. Fossier, her vendor, to set the sale aside on the alleged ground that, whereas she intended to purchase the entire interest in the…