Landry v. Grace

The suit is to annul a sheriff’s adjudication and deed of a certain plantation situated in the parish of Iberville, and to have the property decreed to belong to the succession of Edward J. Clifton. The facts are admitted, the controversy between the parties being confined solely to the law applicable to these facts.

The record shows that the plantation in question belonged to the marital community existing between Edward J. Clifton and his wife, Mrs. Eliza Blanchard Clifton; that some time prior to his death Clifton executed a mortgage on the property to secure a community debt; that…