Ball's Administratrix v. Ball
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action of partition, instituted by the widow and administratrix of Jonathan Ball, deceased, for one undivided third part of a piece of ground situated in the Second Municipality of the city of New-Orleans, called the “Rope Walk,” which was the joint property of the partners of Jonathan Ball & Co.; a firm composed of Jonathan Ball, Erastus Ball, and L. C. Ball.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action of partition, instituted by the widow and administratrix of Jonathan Ball, deceased, for one undivided third part of a piece of ground situated in the Second Municipality of the city of New-Orleans, called the “Rope Walk,” which was the joint property of the partners of Jonathan Ball & Co.; a firm composed of Jonathan Ball, Erastus Ball, and L. C. Ball. There was a sale of the property ordered to effect, a partian(j ^ g Re gretonj p ^ Roste, H. F. Deblieux, and L. Janin, became the purchasers on the 9th of May, 1836, for…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
Russell Ball died in New-Orleans some years ago, leaving *178among other property a tract of land in the rear of the faubourg Annunciation, called his rope-walk. His heirs at law were his father and mother, his brothers and sisters, living in the northern states. They passed a private sale of their interest in said tract of land to the mercantile firm of J. Ball & Co., in this city; said firm being composed of Jonathan Ball, Erastus Ball and Levi Ball. The firm being subsequently dissolved by the death of Jonathan Ball, his widow, Delana Ball, in her own name, and as tutrix of her minor children,…
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