Monk v. Monk

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Fred Monk instituted this suit in 1958' against his former wife, Etta Bell Monk, 1 -.seeking to be declared the owner of an undivided half interest in a thirty-acre tract •of land located in Ouachita Parish 2 acquired in the wife’s name during the •existence of the community of acquets and -gains established by the marriage of the -parties in 1924, and dissolved in 1939 by ■their judicial separation. 3 The matter is mow before us to review the judgment of '.the appellate court reversing the lower ■court judgment favorable to the plaintiff ■and dismissing his suit on…