Wadsworth v. Alexius

McCALEB, Justice.

Plaintiff, formerly the owner of an undivided one-sixth interest in several parcels of land situated in the Parish of St. Tammany, comprising more than 600 acres, instituted this action to annul a judgment ordering the partition by licitation of the property and also to set aside two partition sales of the land held under authority of said judgment. The grounds for nullity of the judgment are alleged to be that (1) plaintiff was neither cited nor did she answer the suit and that the attorney who purported to represent her was without authority to do so and (2), further, that,…