Jefferson v. Schenck

This is a petitory action in which the plaintiff claims ownership of a part of lot 8 and the whole of lot 9 in square 789 in the third district of the city of New Orleans. The alleged chain of title shows that the ownership of the property was in his wife’s family since December 28, 1838, and that he inherited it from the succession of his deceased wife, Mrs. Eglerret Joseph, by virtue of a judgment of the civil district court in proceedings No. 152657 of the docket.

The defendant filed an exception of no right or cause of action based upon the ground that defendant is a married woman, and,…