Mercier v. Harnan

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

The plaintiffs sue to recover certain immovable property described in their petition, and to annul a tax title of the same, made to the defendant in possession.

The plaintiffs claimed to he owners of the property by inheritance from their mother, Henrietta Antoinette Corinne Smith, wife of Dr. Arm and Mercier. They deny that Dr. Mercier ever owned the property, though the same was assessed in his name, but aver that it belonged to Mrs. Mercier, and was donated to her by her mother at her mariiago, in 1837, and constituted a part of her dotal…