Bornio v. Berger

This is a partition suit. In 189,2 Peter St. Amand and four others formed, an association to purchase certain lots of ground in the square bounded by Customhouse, Bienville, Dorgenois and Rocheblave Streets. They purchased the lots from Fergus Kernan by an act before R. E. Upton, Notary, dated May 30, 1892. To suit their own purposes the sale was made to Peter St. Amand alone. By a counter letter dated June 20, 1893, St. Amand acknowledged that the purchase was made for himself, Manuel Bornio, Sr., Manuel Bornio, Jr., Marcus K. Bitterman, and Thomas J. Raymond in the proportion of one-fifth…