Jackson v. Creswell
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; B. H. Pavy, Judge. Suit by Mrs. Fannie T. Jackson and another against George Allison Creswell. From a judgment sustaining an exception of no cause of action, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
Plaintiffs prosecute this appeal from a judgment sustaining an exception of no cause of action.
The plaintiff whose name appears in the title is the widow in community of James W. Jackson, who died in 1908; the other plaintiff, Mrs. Helen Jackson Cunningham, widow of M. J. Cunningham, Jr., is a daughter of the decedent- by his marriage with her cop'laintiff. In their respective capacities of widow in community and heir (alleging that T. Anderson Jackson is a son and coheir) plaintiffs sue to recover a certain tract of land of which defendant and his authors,…
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