Messi v. Frechede
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Certiorari to Court of Appeal, First Circuit. Action by Jules E. Messi and others against J. M. Frechede. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs- appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement.
MONROE, J.
Petitioners brought suit in the district court for the parish of Natchitoches against J. M. Frechede for the recovery of 27 acres of land, more or less, in. section 131, T. 9, R. 7, lying about the middle (of one side) of what has been known as the Messi Place, and bounded on three sides by that place, and on the fourth side by Cane river. They allege that they are the sole heirs of Gerome Messi, who owned theMessi Place (a plantation containing some 800 acres or more); that in 1874 Mrs. M. E. Payne and her husband, who owned the tract here claimed, verbally agreed to sell…
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