Woods v. Woods

Merrick, O. J.

The present case is before us on an appeal taken by plaintiffs from a judgment dismissing their petition.

The action as it now stands is brought in the parish of West Baton Rouge by the plaintiffs, as the heirs at law of Ezer E. Woods, Amanda Smith, their mother, and of Ma/t'ia E. and Edith Woods, their deceased sisters, to annul the sale of certain slaves bought, as plaintiffs allege, by the defendant, the .administrator of said Ezer E. Woods, deceased, through persons interposed.

It is alleged that the succession of said Ezer E. Woods was opened in the parish of De Soto, where…