Ruffino v. Hunt

McCALEB,, Justice.

Plaintiff instituted this suit against his former wife to have a certain piece of improved real estate, designated as Lot 13 of Square 48 in the Second District of New Orleans, bearing Municipal No. 624 St. Philip Street, declared to be his separate property and, if necessary, for a final partition of the community formerly existing between them.

The salient facts are not disputed respecting the acquisition of and subsequent transactions affecting the property. At the time of. the marriage in 1938, plaintiff was the owner.of the property, having purchased it in 1936 while a…