Buckner-Harmon Wood Contractor v. Norris

McCALEB, Justice.

This suit has for its object the partition by licitation of all the merchantable timber growing on a tract of land approximately 400 acres in area, situated in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Plaintiffs, a commercial partnership and its individual members, acquired by purchase and are owners of an undivided 926,670/1,045,440 interest in this timber which they allege is not divisible in kind.

The principal defendants in the case are Malcolm M. Norris, Mrs. Jessie Mae Walker, William W. Norris, J. Allen Norris, Dr. John G. Norris and Mrs. Rebecca Norris Lott, the owners of an…