Miller v. Wiggins
Supreme Court of Louisiana
■Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Evangeline; B. H. Pavy, Judge. Action by Dayo Miller and others against R. Lee Wiggins, Sheriff, and others, in which Caroline Guillory Miller and another intervened. Judgment for the defendants, and the plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
Plaintiffs, seven in number, appearing as the children and sole legal heirs of Jean Pierre Miller, deceased, issue of his marriage with Florestine Fusilier, his predeceased wife, proceeded o by rule against the sheriff and ex officio tax collector of the parish of Evangeline, requiring him to show eáuse why they should not be put in possession, without paying any inheritance tax, of a certain tract of land which had belonged to the community of ac-. quets between their parents, and of other tracts which their father had acquired after the death of their…
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