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Mitchell v. Iler

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Jan 4, 1932
138 So. 672 (La. 1932)

Opinion

No. 30200.

November 30, 1931. Rehearing Denied January 4, 1932.

Appeal from Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; L. Robert Rivarde, Judge.

C.A. Buchler and L.H. Gosserand, both of Gretna, for appellants.

John E. Fleury, of New Orleans, for appellee.


Plaintiffs sold their property to the defendant, and now they bring this suit to have the sale set aside and declared only a mortgage for the purchase price.

Of course they charge fraud, because otherwise parol evidence would not have been admissible to vary the terms of the deed. Waller v. Dawson, 162 La. 804, 111 So. 170. But they have not proved it, and we believe, as the district judge did, that plaintiffs knew quite well that they were selling their property and not mortgaging it.

The judgment appears to us correct.

Decree.

The judgment appealed from is therefore affirmed.


Summaries of

Mitchell v. Iler

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Jan 4, 1932
138 So. 672 (La. 1932)
Case details for

Mitchell v. Iler

Case Details

Full title:ARTHUR MITCHELL ET AL. v. WILLIE ILER

Court:Supreme Court of Louisiana

Date published: Jan 4, 1932

Citations

138 So. 672 (La. 1932)
138 So. 672