Case ID: la-ann_22/html/0430-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Howe, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 676.
    Marie T. Castille v. N. and W. Offutt.
    Ihe holder of a note given for land and slaves can only recover that portion which is ascertained to he for the land predicated on the entire price of the sale. Sandidge v. Sanderson, and Satterfield v. Spurlock, 21 An. 757, 771.
    APPEAL from the District Court, parish of St. Landry. Bailey, J.
    
      Dupre & Garland, for plaintiff and appellee. John B. King & Kstilette, for defendant and appellant.
   Howe, J.

This action was brought to recover the last installment of ten thousand dollars, due on the purchase of .a plantation and slaves, and the evidence has satisfied us that the value of the slaves was one-fourth of the entire price. The question of law discussed by counsel has been settled in Sandidge v. Sanderson and Satterfield v. Spurlock, 21 An. 757, 771.

The judgment from which the defendants have appealed is erroneous in allowing plaintiff to recover the whole amount of the claim; hut she-is entitled to recover three-fourths.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from he reduced in amount to the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, with interest at eight per cent, per annum from February 4, 1859; that, as. thus modified, it he affirmed, and that the plaintiff pay the costs of appeal.