McCollom v. McCollom

The plaintiff asserts title to one undivided third of a tract of land containing two thousand acres, and the improvements thereon, and to five slaves, and some moveable effects appurtenant to ,the plantation, which he acquired by purchase from one Bishop, jointly with Williams and Rightor, by an act of sale which was duly recorded in the parish of Pointe Coupée, in *507which the land is situated.' He further represents, that the Marshal of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, under color of an execution against his co-proprietors, Williams and Rightor, issued from the Circuit…