Trezevant v. Holmes

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

At the date of her marriage with Geo. T. Trezevant in 1871, Mrs. Julia Trezevant held, under an agreement of purchase afterwards perfected, a plantation in Madison parish. Subsequently her husband bought two tracts of lands, adjoining the wife’s property, one on each side. From the date of said purchases, the three tracts were embodied and administered as one plantation under the control of the husband.

Since 1880, the commercial firm of Nugent & Lallande and, after its dissolution, John B. Lallande, had been the factors of the entire…