Starns v. Goodwyn
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twelfth District Court for the Parish of Rapides. Blackman, J. The case of M. R. Starns vs. A. O. Lewis was a cause, an action brought before a court and therefore a suit. 0.1\ 95,147, and commenced by a petition addressed to a competent judge setting forth the cause of action.
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APPEAL from the Twelfth District Court for the Parish of Rapides. Blackman, J. The case of M. R. Starns vs. A. O. Lewis was a cause, an action brought before a court and therefore a suit. 0.1\ 95,147, and commenced by a petition addressed to a competent judge setting forth the cause of action. C. P. 171. It is termed a suit in the Acts of 1866 and 1868. “The act of 1870, in our opinion, removed all the causes, suits and successions falling under the conditions mentioned therein from the parish of Rapides, divested the courts of that parish of all further jurisdiction and control over them and…
1Opinion of the Court
*304The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
This is a suit to annul a judgment.
In a previous litigation, an attempt having been made to attack it collaterally, this court held that this could not be done and that it must have full force and effect until set aside in a direct action. Starns vs. Hadnot, 42 An. 368.
The plaintiffs and defendants are uterine half brothers and sisters.
The plaintiffs are the children by a first, and the defendants by a second marriage.
Their mother having died in 1876, the plaintiffs at the time claimed that there existed a community between her and her…
2Cited by1 opinion
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