Ware v. Vignes

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Pochí, J.

This is an action for partition, in which plaintiffs allege that they are undivided owners with defendants of a certain tract of land measuring an arpent and a half front on the Mississippi river, by the usual depth, and forming part of a larger tract measuring three arpents front on said river, which other half of said tract is owned by another set of proprietors, known as Similien Sheldon & Co.

After this judicial admission of the state of indivisión of the ownership of the three arpent tract, plaintiff’s petition contains the averment that a…