Case ID: la-ann_24/html/0445-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ludeling, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 2770.
    Francois Lacroix and Etienne Cordeviolle v. Edward D. White.
    A possessor of real estate under a title derived from a judicial sale, made under a judgment, can not be evicted therefrom in a suit by another claimant by a different title, unless the claimant alleges and shows that the judgment itself is illegal, or that the sale is illegal and void.
    from the Sixth District Court, parish of Orleans. Oooley, J.
    
      M. F. JAvaudais and John J. Barnett, for plaintiffs and appellants. Fellows <& Mills, for defendant and appellee.
   Ludeling, C. J.

The plaintiff brings this action to'recover a certain lot of ground in the city of New Orleans, which he alleges defendant has illegally taken possession of.

The defendant avers that he is the owner thereof by virtue of a purchase at, a sheriff’s sale, under a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. There was a judgment of non-suit and the plaintiff has appealed.

The plaintiff is really seeking to attack a judgment and a sale under it without having alleged in his pleadings any irregularity or illegality, either before or after the judgment. This can not be done. The defendant’s title will be upheld until its detects (if any there be) be specifically stated and proved. •

It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be affirmed, with costs of appeal.