Smith v. Marino

The plaintiff alleges in her petition that she is the owner of an undivided half interest in a lot of ground with the improvements thereon, situated in Lake Charles; that the said property was acquired in 1928 in the name of her former husband, William Mack Smith, during the existence of her marriage with him; that in 1935, she filed a declaration in the conveyance records of Calcasieu Parish, designating said property as a family home or homestead; that her husband attempted to sell said property to the defendant, Marino, in May, 1938; that a divorce was rendered between her and her husband…