Legal Opinion

Alexander v. Gray

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided April 29, 1938No. 5664PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TALIAFERRO, Judged

This is a petitory action in which the plaintiff, Jacob Ehner Alexander, seeks to recover an undivided half interest in and to the S. E. % of N. E. and a strip of 20.00 acres, 110 yards wide, off of the north side of the N. % of the S. E. *4 of Section 22, Township 22 North, Range 10 West, containing 60.00 acres, in Webster Parish, Louisiana. His right to recover, if any he has, hinges upon the efficacy of the following instrument as a legal adoption of plaintiff by or an indenture having the effect of substituting him as a legal heir of Joseph E. McClaskey and his wife, Nancy…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Cox v. Von AhlefeldtSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1901
  2. Vidal v. CommagéreSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1858
  3. Murphy v. MurphySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1914
  4. Succession of CaldwellSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
  5. Succession of JacobsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1900

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Jim Akin v. Louisiana National Bank of Baton RougeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
  2. Welch v. JacobsmeyerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1949
  3. Lyons v. GoodmanLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1955
  4. Sosa v. Sosa EscobarSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1946
  5. Adar v. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2010

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