Lewis v. Baker
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Action by William Lewis and others against Gabriel Baker. Judgment for plaintiffs was reversed by the Court of Appeals, and plaintiffs applied for certiorari or writ of review.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
This case is before the court for the purposes of the review of a judgment of the Court of Appeal, parish of St. Mary (reversing a judgment rendered by the district court of that parish), and may be stated as follows:
Plaintiffs, William, Saphronia, and Lizzie Lewis, inherited, in indivisión from their mother, Martha Lewis, a certain lot upon the edge of the town of Franklin, upon which there was a house where the decedent had lived, and which is said to have been placed there by the defendant, who is an older and illegitimate son, to whom plaintiffs sold the…
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