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10 Teiss. 266

Patterson v. Koops

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided June 19, 1913

Louisiana Court of Appeal · decided 1913-06-19

<p>Appeal from tlie Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans, Division “C,” No. 95,960. Hon. E. K. Skinner, Judge.</p>

Decided 1913-06-19

¶1His Honor,

EMILE GODCHAUX,

¶2rendered the opinion and decree of the Court as follows:

¶3The defense to this suit for the specific performance of an alleged contract to purchase certain lots in “Park Bow” is that there was error as to the thing which was the subject of the contract, the defendant alleging that he intended to purchase lots in City Park Bow, which is an improved thoroughfare, and not in Park Row, which is a blind alley leading from Carrollton Avenue to the rear' of the lots facing City Park Row. ’ There was judgment below maintaining this defense and the plaintiff appeals.

¶4There is considerable conflict in the testimony, but as a whole it sustains the defense that defendant honestly believed that he was purchasing lots on City Park Row, to which his attention had been directed by the “For Sale” signs of plaintiff’s brokers. He was undoubtedly likewise led into this error partly by his own ignorance of the fact, that two streets bearing such similar names existed in this newly opened residential section of the city, and partly through the statement of a clerk in- the employ of plaintiff’s brokers to the effect that City Park Row and' Park Row were one and the same thorough-fáré.' Defendant’s testimony is to this effect and he is corroborated by the testimony of disinterested witnesses, as well as by.other facts, that it will serve no useful purpose to review. He is positive as to the statement made to him by the broker’s clerk, while the latter, as a wit-*268Dess, does not emphatically deny making it, but rather professes to haye no recollection thereof, and' admits that he did not know the difference between the two streets.

Opinion and decree, June 19th, 1913.

¶5As there was no meeting of the minds with respect to the thing which was the subject of the contract, no obligation was created, and, consequently, specific performance was properly denied.

¶6The judgment is accordingly affirmed.

¶7Judgment affirmed.

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