Thomas v. Thomas

McBRIDE, Judge.

Plaintiff, Monroe Thomas, brings this action to have himself declared and recognized as the owner of an undivided three-fourths interest in two certain lots of ground with improvements in the City of New Orleans, and to have defendant, Lillie Scott Thomas, his divorced wife, who is in possession, deliver the property to him.

Plaintiff seeks to have annulled a certain instrument dated March 31, 1942, which he styles a “declaration” purportedly signed by him and by his then wife, Lillie S. Thomas, before Frederic C. Querens, Notary Public, and to have its inscription erased from…