Legal Opinion
Bjornson v. Cowan
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided March 2, 2011No. 45,927-CAPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
|2The defendant, Dinah Cowan, appeals a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Timothy Bjornson. The trial court found that defendant breached her contract to sell land with a dock and awarded $7,920 in damages to the plaintiff. For the following reasons, we amend and affirm as amended.
FACTS
In June 2007, Timothy Bjornson purchased a residential lot on Caney Lake in Jackson Parish from the seller, Dinah Co-wan. The property was advertised as having a dock extending into the lake. Cowan had bought the parcel from Travis Young, who had also sold the adjacent lot to Melba Murphy. Young had built the…
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