Gernon v. Bestick

The plaintiff, being the owner of the undivided half of two adjoining lots of ground situated in the city of New Orleans, instituted a suit in partition against the owner of the other undivided half, the minor James Besticic, represented by his father and tutor, Edward Bestick.

The tutor pleaded the general issue.

Experts were named and sworn, and made, on the 15th of November, 1858, a report, stating 11 that after a careful examination of said two lots of ground, they are of opinion that the same cannot be divided in kind, one of them being a corner lot, and more valuable than the other.”

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