Legal Opinion

Suthon v. Laws

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided February 3, 1913No. 19,423PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; C. J. Boatner, Judge. Action for partition by Walter J. Suthon against Harry L. Laws and others, in which defendants controverted plaintiff’s title, and called his vendors in warranty. From a judgment bn a rule to tax costs, defendants appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.

In the above-entitled suit this court heretofore (127 La. 531, 53 South. 852) rendered the following judgment:

“It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment appealed from be set aside, and that there now be judgment recognizing- the plaintiff, Walter J. Suthon, as owner of the one undivided fourth of the S. E. % of section 25 S., range 9 E., parish of St. Mary, and ordering a partition in kind of the said quarter section of land; that this case be remanded for effecting said partition, and for further trial on the several demands in warranty, with instructions to the lower…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Cameron v. LaneSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1884
  2. Suthon v. LawsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1910

3Cited by21 opinions

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  3. Cutitto v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1937
  4. State Ex Rel. Department of Highways v. JonesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1962
  5. Blanchard v. CrossSupreme Court of Vermont · 1924

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