Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Volume 30, Part 1, Pages 1-800state, 1879 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 12
... purchased from John Bondurant the land acquired by the latter and his brothers from their father's estate , and ... purchase of his brother's share , Frank Watson became the sole owner of the whole . Walter E. Bondurant brought suit ...
... purchased from John Bondurant the land acquired by the latter and his brothers from their father's estate , and ... purchase of his brother's share , Frank Watson became the sole owner of the whole . Walter E. Bondurant brought suit ...
Page 23
... purchase . The probabilities and the reasonableness of the case all sustain the direct repeated and emphatic statement of Boothby , that he did not sell or transfer the note to Devine ; but only received the money , as he thought he was ...
... purchase . The probabilities and the reasonableness of the case all sustain the direct repeated and emphatic statement of Boothby , that he did not sell or transfer the note to Devine ; but only received the money , as he thought he was ...
Page 141
... purchase of the defendant's usufructuary interest by Patrick and Austin , she had made a lease on 1 March 1866 to Patrick of the Mound plantation for four years from 12 January 1866 , which remained in force until the same month of 1868 ...
... purchase of the defendant's usufructuary interest by Patrick and Austin , she had made a lease on 1 March 1866 to Patrick of the Mound plantation for four years from 12 January 1866 , which remained in force until the same month of 1868 ...
Page 148
... purchase , or if it had , that it could affect them . Mus- son & Co. allege that the residue of the price , viz $ 5,630.76 was never paid , and on the 27th . of December they instituted this suit , and , sequestrated the cotton , which ...
... purchase , or if it had , that it could affect them . Mus- son & Co. allege that the residue of the price , viz $ 5,630.76 was never paid , and on the 27th . of December they instituted this suit , and , sequestrated the cotton , which ...
Page 150
... purchase or transfer of bills of lading of the cotton , and that he accepted from Nevins & Co.'s agent bills for forty - nine bales of cotton as collateral for the balance due Mus- son & Co. , I am unable to infer from these facts that ...
... purchase or transfer of bills of lading of the cotton , and that he accepted from Nevins & Co.'s agent bills for forty - nine bales of cotton as collateral for the balance due Mus- son & Co. , I am unable to infer from these facts that ...
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