Suthon v. Laws
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; A. C. Allen, Judge ad hoc. Action by Walter. J. Suthon against Harry L. Laws in which defendant called his vendors in warranty. Judgment for defendant and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvostt, J.
Alleging that he is owner of one-fourth, undivided, of S. E. % of section 25, township 13 S., range 9 E., parish of St. Mary, and that defendant owns the other undivided three-fourths, plaintiff prays for a partition in kind. Defendant controverts the title of plaintiff. Plaintiff traces title to Mrs. Caroline Brownson; and defendant to Mrs. Emma Brownson. The latter lady was the daughter-in-law of the former. They owned between them a body of land extending from Bayou Teche on the west to Grand Lake on the east, and bounded on the north by the Fuselier plantation, and on the south, for a…
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