Pennywell v. Bauman

Plaintiff owned an undivided six-tenths interest in lot No. 1 of block 4, ten-acre lot 31 of the city of Shreveport. The Washburn Land Company owned all or a portion of the remaining interest. Being unable to agree on an amicable partition, the Washburn Land Company instituted a partition suit against Mrs. Pennywell, obtained a judgment as prayed for, and, pursuant to the order, obtained a commission to sell the property at public auction for cash, to effect a partition, the proceeds to be distributed, after deducting the expenses of the sale, to the several co-owners in proportion to their…