Clark v. Christine
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP PROBATES, POR THE PARISH OP EAST FELI-CIANA, THE JUDGE OP THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT PRESIDING. This is an action instituted in the Probate Court for the parish of East Feliciana, to annul a partition.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP PROBATES, POR THE PARISH OP EAST FELI-CIANA, THE JUDGE OP THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT PRESIDING. This is an action instituted in the Probate Court for the parish of East Feliciana, to annul a partition. The plaintiff shows that he is a judgment creditor, in the sum of five hundred dollars, with interest, of Rowena Christine, formerly widow Cooney ; that at the death of her first husband, John Cooney, there was a considerable amount of community property consisting of lands and slaves, which remained for some time undivided, in the hands of the surviving…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
This action was instituted originally in the Court of Probates, for the parish of East Feliciana, by a creditor of one of the defendants to annul a partition as fraudulent in relation to him, and null on account of certain informalities. It was transferred for trial to the District Court, the judge of probates having been of counsel.
A plea to the jurisdiction of the Court of Probates, having been sustained, and the suit dismissed, the plaintiff prosecutes the present appeal.
If this were an action merely to annul a judgment, brought by a party to it, or directly affected by it, the court which…
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