Wells v. Wells
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District -Court, Parish of Rapides; Horace Henry White, Judge at hoe. Action by Ennemon M. Wells and others against Charles M. Wells. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
Plaintiffs’ original and amended petitions were dismissed on an exception of no cause of action, and they have appealed.
The allegations of the petition may be stated substantially as follows:
Petitioners are five of the eight heirs and living representatives of their father, Gen. Montfort Wells, and of their mother, Mrs. Jeanette Wells, late of the parish of Rapides, .both of whom died about the year 1882. Petitioners inherited the undivided five-eighths of the property owned by said decedents at the time of their deaths.
The other three heirs are T. Jeff Wells, Charles M. Wells, and the heirs…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Westmore v. HarzSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1902
- Ackerman v. PetersSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1904
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