Gibson v. Pickens

FOURNET, Justice.

This suit was instituted by Emmeline Gibson, surviving widow of Chesley Gibson, against forty-six named defendants to recover an undivided one-fourth interest in and to the S. % of N. W. J4 of section IS, township 23 north, range 16 west, Caddo Parish, La., which she alleged belonged to the community that formerly existed between her and the decedent and which property was in his possession at the time of his death.

The basis of plaintiff’s claim is that the northwest quarter of said section was entered as a homestead from the state of Louisiana on the 22d of March, 1890, by…