Rocques v. Freeman
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Natchitoches; W. H. Jack, Judge ad hoc. Action by Marie Theresa Rocques, Widow Metoyer, against J. W. Freeman, Sheriff, and others. From a judgment, for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
In 1845 plaintiff’s late husband, Charles Florival Metoyer, acquired a tract of land of 120 arpents, with buildings and improvements thereon. He acquired it in his own name. Plaintiff claims, however, that it was acquired during her marriage with him, and fell into the community of acquets and gains which existed between them, and that therefore she was owner of an undivided half of it, as survivor in community, when she executed the following instrument;
“State of Louisiana, Parish of Natchitoches.
“Be it known that on this day before me, Joseph Charleville, a notary public, in and for the…
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