Bruce v. Holstein

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

Otis Bruce and LeRoy Bruce, the sole heirs of their mother, Viola Street Bruce, instituted this suit, a petitory action, against W. C. Holstein, Trudia Jones, and John H. Strickland, to recover an undivided one-half interest in and to lot 3, being the N. W. ⅛ of N. E. ¾ of Sec. 5, Tp. 9 N., R. 1 E., in the parish of Grant, .La.; and to recover rent for tlie use and occupancy thereof for several years.

The petition declares that the land was patented to Patrick C. Street as a homestead in 1906, and that the heirs of Street sold and conveyed it to George W. Bruce, petitioners’…