Case Name: GASQUET vs. OAKEY
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1841-06
Citations: 19 La. 76
Docket Number: 
Parties: GASQUET vs. OAKEY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 19
Pages: 76–77

Head Matter:
GASQUET vs. OAKEY.
Easterx Dxs.
June, 1841.
AMCEAE EHOM THE PARISH COURT TOR THE 1’ARISH ASTD CITY OE KW OHLEAITS.
The surety who has paid defendant’s notes in the hands of a third person, without notice of the defence set up, will recover the amount he has paid, notwithstanding the eviction and loss of title to the property for which they were given,
This is an action against the defendant as maker of one, and endorser of another note, given as part of the price of land. The plaintiff became bound with the defendant; paid and took up these notes, and now seeks to recover the amount of them from the latter.
The defendant pleaded the general issue, and set up a failure of title, and danger of eviction from the property for which the notes were given, &c.
There was judgment against him, and he appealed.
Wharton, for the plaintiff.
Oakey, in person, &c.

Opinion:
Morphy, J.
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff seeks to recover the amount of two promissory notes, one drawn to his order by defendant, and the other drawn by G. Green to the order of- defendant, and by him endorsed over to the plaintiff. The defence set up is, that the notes sued on were given in payment of a tract of land purchased from. Levi Pierce by defendant jointly with the plaintiff, Green & Currell. That prior to the institution of this suif, an-action of slander of title had been brought by defendant and his co-purchasers against John McDonogh, who publicly claimed the land as his own, and pretended to have a better title to the same than the defendant and his co-owners ; and moreover, that J. McDonogh is in possession of the property they sold to them. Even admitting that this defence could have availed the defendant, in a suit brought against him by his vendor,' it cannot be set up against the plaintiff, who as surety has paid the debt in the hands of third persons, without notice of the pretended danger of eviction and want of possession; and against whom the defendant could not have opposed these mat-, ters, to withhold or suspend payment.
The judgment of the Parish Court is therefore affirmed with costs.