Richard v. Moore
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Edmund Denis Miller, Judge. Action by C. B. Richard against O. E. Moore and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, J.
Plaintiff sued to recover from the defendants an undivided half interest in land forming an addition to the city of Lake Charles.
The land was entered by Phillip Reon under the homestead laws of the United States on the 6th day of September, 1869.
At that date he was the husband of Milly Reon, and husband and wife resided on the land until May, 1873, on which date Phillip Reon died.
Milly Reon, widow of Phillip, continued to reside on the land, and in 1875, after the required five years’ occupancy had elapsed, she made final proof of homestead, and received a patent, issued in her name, for the…
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