Levy v. Hitsche

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

This is a suit to compei the defendant to accept title to a piece of leal estate described in the petition, and to which he makes the following objections, viz:

First. That it is derived through certain partition proceedings had in the Second District Court of the parish of Orleans, wherein one succession obtained a decree against another, ordering a partition in kind ; and that said court was without jurisdiction to entertain and decide it.

Second. That, to said partition proceedings, the universal legatees, nominated in the will of the…