Wetherbee v. Lodwick Lumber Co.

ODOM, Justice.

The Lodwick Lumber Company purchased at public sale made on October 6, 1934, a large tract of land in Bossier Parish and paid therefor $82,500. The sale was made by the sheriff under a writ ordering him to sell the property to effect a partition thereof. The lumber company recorded its deed in the conveyance records of the parish and immediately took possession.

The writ of sale under which the sheriff acted was issued pursuant to a judgment rendered on April 23, 1934, in a suit for partition, styled Continental Securities Corporation v. George W. Wetherbee (Risinger,…