Succession of Packwood

In order properly to understand the question which this case presents, it is necessary to premise, that Samuel Packwood, and his late wife, Alice Packwood, were married in the State of Connecticut, and, in the year 1804, removed to Louisiana, where they resided until 1836, and acquired a considerable property, consisting of a plantation and city houses and lots, in community, according to our local law. That, in 1836, they returned to the north, and fixed their domicil in the city of New York, where the community of acquets does not exist. One undivided half of a large plantation in the…