Witson v. Joseph

LE BLANC, Judge.

This is a petitory action in which the plaintiff asks to be recognized as the owner of a certain tract of land situated in the fourth ward of the parish of Iberville, title to which, she avers, was acquired ,by her at public sale when the same was alleged to have been sold •under an order of court in the succession proceedings of Houston L. Staring, in order to pay debts of his estate. In her petition, plaintiff also sets out that John Joseph, who is without any legal title, is in the physical possession of the property, and she prays that he be ordered to deliver the same to…