Smalley v. Lawrence

The plaintiff represents, that she was the wife of the late Abner Smalley, who, in the year 1841, made a surrender of his property to his creditors, and that the defendant assumes to be the syndic of them. She alleges that she is the owner of several tracts of land, described in the petition, which the aforesaid syndic, and the parish judge of Concordia, as auctioneer, are about to sell as property surrendered to the creditors, when in truth and in fact the same belongs to her, she having purchased them from the United States. She avers, that these attempts to sell the land, in violation of…