Succession of Townsend v. Sykes

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

This is an action by the dative testamentary executor for the purpose of annulling and setting aside the sale of a.valuable piece of immovable property, which has ostensibly been sold by the defendant Sykes, who had been appointed testamentary executor and universal legatee by the last will of the deceased.

The purchaser, who had called'Sykes and his. mother in warranty, and the warrantors have taken this appeal from a judgment which *860annuls the sale, and decrees the..property to -belong-to the succession, as though no sale thereof had been made…