Jeanin v. Bowman

*65 O P I N I O N By his Honor John St. Paul. Thia is a petitory action. In 1903 plaintiff and the other heirs of his father partitioned in kind certain squares of ground, of which the property in controversy formed part and was allotted to plaintiff as his share. . ' At the time of the partition the property in controversy did not belong to the estate of the. deoeased'father, having previously been sold to the State for -unpaid taxes. Thereafter one of plaintiff's coheirs repurchased the property . from the State and sold it to a third person through whom defendants claim title. The question presented is whether the title thus subsequently aoquired by plaintiff's coheir was merchantable by the said coheir, or inured solely to the benefit of plaintiff towards whom said coheir was a warrantor (C. 0. 1384). As a partition in kind is but a sort Of exchange (C. C. 1388 ) and in general the law'applicable to exchanges is that also applicable to sales (C. C. 2667) we. see no distinction between the effeetyof warranty • in partitions and its effect* in sales. But warranty against eviction. on the part of a grantor, is two-fold jL. That the warrantor shall abstain from any act tending to disturb the possession or title of his grantee, and. 2. That he will restore the " price fceae if eviction be suffered through the act of a third person. The latter may be modified.or oven waived., and is clearly divisible’ even between warrantors of undivided portions; but the former cannot be waived (C. C. 2504) and i3 by its very náture indivisible between warrantors by the same act, since it is then an obligation not to do and conjointly contracted. C. C. 1929-2108-8113. (See also Troplong de la Vente Vol 1. 434, 438.) *66 November 25th, 1918. Henoe it follows that whoever Joins in a grant of the whole property though his own interest therein he hut an undivided part, forever estops himself from ever asserting title to any part whatever of the property granted. Accordingly the courts of this'Státe have uniformly held that any title subsequently acquired hy a grantor inures at once to the benefit of his grantee, whose title he is bopnd to complete to the full extent of his warranty. City of N. O. vs Riddell, 121 La 1051 Benton vs Sentell, 50 An 869 Succession of Dupuy, 33 An ### 277. Crocker vs Reed, 23 An 159. It therefore follows that the title acquired from the State hy plaintiff’s coheir and warrantor, at once inured to plaintiff's benefit and completed his title, leaving nothing in the coheir which she could grant to defendant's author. Ihe Judgment appealed from is correct. Judgment Affirmed. New Orleans, La.