Moore v. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of Presbyterian Church

This case presents a contest for an undivided two-thirds interest in certain land described in the petition and situated in the parish of Richland.

The title to the other one-third interest is admitted to be in defendant.

It is also admitted by all parties that the land was owned in its entirety by Johnson Jordan under a regular chain of title going back to its severance from the public domain.

Jordan died in 1877 leaving a surviving widow and several heirs.

On November 29, 1877, the widow and heirs made an extrajudicial partition under and by which the whole of said land was allotted to Nannie…