Ducre v. Milner

This is a petitory action. It involves the title to 20 acres of land in section 43, Tp. 8 S., R. 13 E., St. Tammany parish. The petitioner alleges that, jointly and together with his brother and two sisters, they acquired, on May 25, 1866, by deed from Anatole L. Cousin, 940 acres of land, more or less, in the parish of St. Tammany; that the land sued for is a part of said tract, and that it is now in the corporeal possession of the defendant; that petitioner’s brother and two sisters died intestate and without forced heirs; that he is their nearest surviving collateral heir and is, by…