Smith v. Marino

In this suit plaintiff seeks to recover her alleged ownership of an undivided one-half interest in a lot of ground in the city of Lake Charles which she claims belonged to the community which formerly existed between herself and her husband, William Mack Smith, from whom she is divorced, and which he had sold to the defendant herein, Tony Marino.

The plaintiff had had a notarial declaration of family home recorded under the provisions of Act 35 of 1921, Ex.Sess., while she was still living with her husband and they were occupying the property. That declaration was recorded on May 5, 1938, when…