Hewitt v. Watson

CULPEPPER, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this suit for partition in kind of a tract of land. The court appointed P. N. Fontenot, a civil engineer, to survey the property and prepare a plat as to how the land and improvements could be divided into halfs. Fontenot actually prepared a plat and it is in the record, together with his statement in the sum of $890 for services rendered. However, the district judge later set aside his order appointing this expert. The defendant, Molly Hendrix Watson, filed an answer denying that the property could be divided in kind, and she reconvened praying that the…