Jenkins v. Salmen Brick & Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Sixth. Judicial District Court, Parish of Washington; Thomas Moore Burns, Judge. Action by Gussie Jenkins and husband against the Salmen Brick & Lumber Company, Limited. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
This is a petitory action, brought by plaintiff for a tract of land measuring 847 acres in the parish of Washington.
Plaintiff claims that her mother'inherited the land from her mother (plaintiff’s grandmother), who was Mrs. M. Cockern, wife of Isaac Cockern, and who died in 1879.
At her death Mrs. Mary Cockern left eight children, and the land claimed by plaintiff, as well as some movable property belonging to the community which had existed between Mrs. Mary Cockern and her surviving husband, Isaac Cockern.
The eight heirs met some time in the year 18S1 and entered into an amicable partition…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Barrow v. WilsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1886
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