Key v. Woolfolk
Key v. Woolfolk
Opinion of the Court
The petitioner sues for the value of' a certain quantity of bricks, a part of which, he alleges, was sold to the defendant, and the balance forcibly taken away from his brick kiln by the defendant, and converted to his own use. This claim is resisted on the ground that, at a Sheriff’s sale made on the 4th of March, 1843, in virtue of an order of seizure and sale issued against Key, the defendant became the purchaser of his land on bayou Grosse Tete, and acquired, with the premises, all the improvements and appurtenances thereunto belonging, of which the brick kiln situated on the land was a part. There was a judgment below in favor of the plaintiff, from which this appeal was taken.
We think, with the inferior Judge, that the bricks which were on the land of the plaintiff at the time it was sold by the Sheriff 'and purchased by the defendant, did not pass to the latter with the land, as an accessary to it. They do not appear to have been made immoveable, by being attached to the soil, nor to have become so by destination. On the contrary, the evidence shows that these bricks were not made to be used on the place, and that the plaintiff had been selling them to different persons previous to the Sheriff’s sale. They were, therefore, not included in the adjudication of the land to the defendant. Civil Code, arts. 459, 460, 464, 465, 468. It is shown that ten thousand of these bricks
Judgment affirmed.
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