Gadlin v. Deggs

In November 1944, plaintiff, a colored woman, brought this suit against the defendant, her former paramour (also colored), alleging in substance that, during the month of July 1920, while she and the defendant were residing in Ascension Parish, they entered into a verbal agreement of co-partnership whereby all property which might be acquired through their joint and individual labor and industry, or with money furnished by either, was to become partnership property in which they would share equally; that, pursuant to this agreement, she sold her house and lot in the village of St. Elmo for…