Sisters of Charity of Incarnate Word v. Emery
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish, of Caddo; T. F. Bell, Judge. Suit by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word against R. R. Emery, who impleaded the heirs of J. I. Schumpert. Judg-' ment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niedl, J.
The object of this suit was, ostensibly, to compel the defendant to comply with an agreement to buy, for $30,000, the property known as the old Schumpert Sanitarium site, at the corner of Texas avenue and Grand avenue, in Shreveport. In reality, as far as the original defendant is concerned, it is an amicable suit to test title to the property.
The defendant answered that plaintiff’s title was defective and particularly that a certain act of donation inter vivos made by Dr. John I. Schumpert, now deceased, to the plaintiff’s author in title was invalid, for several reasons which were…
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