Morton v. Reynolds

In 1837, the plaintiff instituted a petitory action against Gillies Thompson, and recovered from him one undivided fourth of a tract of land of four arpens, lying on the river Mississippi, in the parish of Iberville. The defendant in that suit claimed title to the land under a sale from the mother of the plaintiff, to whom it had been adjudicated at the probate sale of the succession of her deceased husband. It appears that Gillies Thompson’s title to the land had been divested by a sheriff’s sale, and transferred to Mary L. Thompson, long before the institution of the plaintiff’s suit…