Pettingill v. Hills, Inc.

ROGERS, Justice.

The- plaintiffs, five in number, as co-owners of certain real estate in the City of New Orleans with Franklin S. Pettingill, Jr., a minor, and Hills, Incorporated, a Louisiana. corporation, brought suit for a partition by licitation of the common property. A prior suit brought by Hills, Incorporated, against Mrs. Caroline Stampo Pettingill, one of the plaintiffs, to have her repair one of the prop- ■ erties as usufructuary and in default thereof to declare her usufruct forfeited and the property sold to effect a partition, was consolidated with the suit for a partition.

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