Ferrier v. Mossler

In 1939, plaintiff filed a partition suit alleging that she was owner in indivision with defendant of 32.35 acres of land in St. Tammany Parish in the proportions of one-fourth to her and three-fourths to the defendant, and she asked that the property be sold at public sale to effect a partition. The defendant answered alleging that he owned an undivided seven-eighths interest and that plaintiff owned an undivided one-eighth interest in the property and otherwise admitted the necessity of a sale to effect a partition.

It appears that counsel for plaintiff in the partition suit withdrew from…