Supreme Court of Louisiana February 15, 1855 (Watkins v. Gibbins)

Ogden, J.

The defendant, on the 7th January, 1852, sold to the plaintiff a tract of land and five negroes for the price of eight thousand dollars. The land is described in the act of sale as the south half of section No. 26, in township No. 5, of range No. 9 east, in the South Eastern Land District of Louisiana, containing three hundred and twenty acres.