Case ID: mart-ns_4/html/0352-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Martin, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GARDERE vs. FOUCHER & AL.
    Appeal from the court of the second district.
    A.suit dismis-asimilad never been instituted.
    A vendee, who cetumt "Sit purchase money
   Martin, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court The petition states, that the defendant „ , . , . . . a ■ • i . > , r oueher, by a notarial act, to wtncu trie <!e-fend ant Avart and the plaintiff were parlies, conveyed to the plaintiff'a lot of ground, in the city of New-Orleans, in exchange for a plantation in the parish ofSt. James, having a front of fourteen arpents, on the Mississippi, with an indefinite depth, or rather the depth stated in the plaintiff’s title; with certain slaves, cattle, implements of agriculture, and improvements. And the defendant Foucher, in consideration of said exchange, promised to pay the plaintiff , „ ' , $34,100: viz. g6,000 on the 24th of October, 1821, 85000 on the 12th of May, 1822, $5,000 on the same day in 1823, $5,600 on the same day in 1824, $5,600 on the same day in 1825, and $6,000 on the same day in 1828 ; and the defendant Foucher gave accordingly his promissory notes, endorsed by the defendant Avnrt; and the defendant Foucher, besides mortgaging the premises, agreed to give further security, by a mortgage often additional slaves.

That afterwards, the defendant Touches conveyed one undivided half of the said land, slaves, &e. to the defendant Avart, who is now in possession thereof.

That two of the aforesaid notes are payable, and duly protested, and the mortgaged pro mises all liable to be sold therefor.

The petition concludes with a prayer for judgment and sale.

The answer avers, that the plaintiff has never complied with the conditions of the contract of exchange; and has not put tiie defendants, or any of them, in possession' of the whole depth of the land given in exchange; that he has no title to any part of the premises beyond the fortieth arpent, the balance being the property of the United Slates, who have, since the exchange, sold part thereof to Roman and Gaiennié, who have sued one of the defendants, anti threaten to sue the other.

Watts & Lobdell for the plaintiff, Canon for the defendants.

There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendants appealed.

The record shows that Gaiennié’s suit was dismissed, it is therefore as if it had never been instituted. The vendee is consequently undisturbed, and cannot resist the vendor’s claim for payment. The vendees were put in possession of the front of the land, ant! this possession extends to the whole depth sold, while there is neither adverse possession, or eviction.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the judgment of the district court be affirmed with costs.