Walker v. Walker

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning J.

In December 1881 the plaintiff instituted suit against the defendant, her daughter-in-law, alleging that nine years before she had sold a tract of land in Lafourche to hei son Emilien for $1800, of which one third had been paid and the residue was represented by two notes maturing in 1874 and 1875 which were secured by mortgage and vendor’s lien—that her son had died and his widow (the defendant) was representing his succession as surviving widow and natural tutrix to his children—that this widow Alexia had fraudulently obtained possession of…