Lafon v. Smith

The facts in this case are fully stated in the opinion of the court, delivered by

Porter, J.

The plaintiff, as heir of J. P. Lafon, deceased, claims from the defendant, the undivided half of a tract of land in the parish of Plaquemine, having a front of thirty-seven arpents, with the depth of forty.

The answer denies title in the plaintiff, and asserts it to be in the defendant, under a sale from Joshua Lewis. It also requires Lewis to be cited in warranty, and prays damages against him, to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, in case the defendant should be evicted.

Lewis’s answer, on the call…