Thornton v. Ellington

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Harvey B. Thornton, instituted this suit, praying to be recognized as the owner of an undivided one-half interest in a certain plantation situated in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, containing 2,375 acres more or less, and praying that an alternative writ of mandamus issue herein directed to defendant, C. J. Ellington, commanding him to execute and deliver to plaintiff a good and valid deed conveying to plaintiff an undivided one-half interest in said plantation, provided that plaintiff pay unto defendant one-half of the purchase price and assrtme an undivided…