Pipkin v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAI. FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF IBERVILLE, THE JUDGE OF THE SECOND PRESIDING. , The plaintiff is the daughter of Thomas B. Pipkin, deceased, who died intestate^' in December, 1819, leaving a tract of four arpents of land on the Mississippi, as part of the community of acquests and gains. The survivors are the widow, and a son and daughter.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAI. FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF IBERVILLE, THE JUDGE OF THE SECOND PRESIDING. , The plaintiff is the daughter of Thomas B. Pipkin, deceased, who died intestate^' in December, 1819, leaving a tract of four arpents of land on the Mississippi, as part of the community of acquests and gains. The survivors are the widow, and a son and daughter. In January, 1821, the widow petitioned the Probate Court to convoke a family meeting to deliberate on the propriety of liquidating and par- ' titioning the succession of the deceased. A family meeting…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
This is a petitory action in which the plaintiff had judgment against the defendant, and he against his warrantors. He appealed and cited the plaintiff alone. The warrantors have followed the defendant to this court, and pray for the reversal of the judgment.
The record shows that the plaintiff’s father left, at his death, a tract of land, four arpents in front, which he had acquired during marriage with his surviving wife. The defendant claimed title under a sale from the widow, to whom it was adjudicated at the probate sale of the succession of the deceased; so that the question turns on the…
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