Coleman v. Pollock

ROGERS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rejecting the demands of the plaintiff and interveners to be recognized as owners and to be sent into possession, as such, of an undivided one half interest in a tract of land situated in the Parish of Lincoln.

The facts, as developed in the record, show that Ben F. Franklin and Etta Banks were married on January 5, 1889, and that the plaintiff and interveners were born of this marriage. On January 2, 1895, Ben F. Franklin acquired, by patent from the United States Government, the W% of SW^4 of Section 5, and the NEj4 of SE% of Section 6,…