Case Name: DONALDSON vs. ROUZAN
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1829-06
Citations: 8 Mart. (n.s.) 162
Docket Number: 
Parties: DONALDSON vs. ROUZAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 8
Pages: 162–163

Head Matter:
DONALDSON vs. ROUZAN.
A sheriffs’ deed does not pass property of the defendant in execution, unless there be a judgment.
But if the debt has been paid, he cannot recover his property, without paying the purchaser.
Appeal from the court of the second district, the judge of said district presiding.

Opinion:
Porter, J.
delivered the opinion of the court. This case is the same in regard to all the facts under which the petitioner and defendant set up a title to the premises with that of the same plaintiff vs. Winter, lately decided in this court, except that in this instance there is no claim on the part of the defendant to be paid for improvements.
McCaleb for the plaintiff.
The judge below thought the sheriff's deed, without a judgment, did not pass the right of the defendant in execution to the purchaser, and in that opinion we concur. But he thought that, as the purchase money had been applied to the benefit of the estate of the plaintiff's testator, she ought not to recover the lot, without returning the price paid for it. In the view taken by the judge below, we also concur; and it is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that his judgment be affirmed, with costs.