Morace v. Avoyelles Wholesale Grocery Co.

Plaintiffs, thirty in number, alleging themselves to own in the aggregate (in proportions specifically set up) 3/8ths interest in and to the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW 1/4 of SW 1/4), Section 11, Township 4 North, Range 3 East, in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, instituted this suit against the Avoyelles Wholesale Grocery Company, Ltd., alleged owner of the other 5/8ths interest in said land, to effect a partition thereof between the co-owners "in kind or by licitation as to the court may seem proper". It is also alleged that the land was acquired by Joseph Morace by patent…