Ruth v. Buwe

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is a petitory action in which the plaintiff seeks to be recognized as the owner of a certain lot of ground and, as such, entitled to the full and undisturbed possession thereof, and to have the defendants ordered to deliver possession thereof to him, and to pay him rent for the use and occupancy of the property.

The father, appearing individually and as natural tutor of his minor children, answered, denying plaintiff’s right to claim ownership, and averred that plaintiff had verbally agreed to sell the lot in controversy to Mrs. Buwe, deceased wife and mother,…