Winn v. Strickland
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffersbn Davis;' Winston Overton, Judge. ■ Action by Hezekiah Winn against Mrs. Dorothy Strickland and husband, and suit by Learcus Strickland and wife against Hezekiah Winn. From a judgment for defendants in the first action and for plaintiffs in the second action, Winn appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
DAWKINS; J.
In May, 1915, Hezekiah Winn brought an action against Mrs. Dorothy Strickland and her husband, Learcus Strickland (the husband being joined as a defendant for the purpose of aiding and authorizing his said wife), in which certain demands were made, but all of which have since disappeared from the case, except one for the recognition and enforcement of a life estate or usufruct in an undivided one-half interest in a piece of real property called the Oaks plantation, and a disputed reversionary clause in the same act by which, in event Mrs. Strickland died before Winn, the said…
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