Chaffe v. Minden Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Parish of Webster; John Nicholls Sandlin, Judge ad hoc. Action hy C. O. Chaffe, guardian, and others, against the Minden Lumber Company. From the judgment, an appeal is taken.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
This is a petitory action. Both parties claim title from J. T. Morrow and his wife; the plaintiffs by inheritance, and the defendant by mesne conveyances. Morrow died in 1852. He was survived by his wife and seven minor children. One of these children and the daughter of another have brought this suit. Four have died without issue and intestate, and the heirs of the seventh have declined to join in this suit.
In 1855, Mahala Morrow, the eldest daughter, who by marriage to J. D. Watkins had become emancipated (it is her heirs, by the way, who have declined to join in the suit), instituted a…
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