Stanbrough v. Wilson

An son Stanbrough died in the parish of Concordia, in 1832. Among the property comprised in his inventory, were two preemption claims to two quarter sections of land, situate on the left bank of Roundaway Bayou, in said parish, appraised at four thousand five hundred dollars. Anson Stanbrough left a widow and two minor children; and his estate was deeply involved in debt.

*495The widow renounced the community, and, by the advice of a family meeting’, convened for that purpose, the property of the succession was ordered to bo sold on certain terms of credit, for the purpose of paying' the debts. At…