Fletcher v. A. F. Dunbar & Co.

The plaintiff in her petition avers that her brother, John Fletcher, and herself are the solo heirs of their father and mother; that their mother who died before their father, left an estate in community with him amounting to $25,000, consisting principally in the Fletcher plantation, in the parish of Concordia; that on the twelfth December, 1859, their father — having previously acquired the son’s fourth part— sold the undivided three-fourths of this plantation to Yorke and Hoover for the price of $37,000, leaving her fourth interest undisposed of; that her father died on the twenty-ninth…