Murphy v. Murphy
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; Prentice E. Edrington, Judge. Action, by Mrs. Elizabeth D. Murphy, wife of Arthur Rolfs, and another, against Marcus T. Murphy. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The property in dispute is a tract of some 521 acres of swamp and overflowed land facing Bayou Barataría and Harvey’s Canal, in the parish of Jefferson. This tract was acquired by Thomas H. Murphy in the year 1867. Murphy died in *191876, and his wife died in 1877, leaving as their sole heirs Louisiana O. Murphy, Marcus T. Murphy, and Junius Murphy. The last named disappeared in 1897, and has never been heard from. Louisiana Murphy married, and died in 1883, leaving a widow, and two children, the latter now the plaintiffs in this suit. Marcus T. Murphy is the defendant, who claims to own the…
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