Succession of Ewing v. Altmeyer

Ann Cannon, the wife of Alexander Ewing, sued her husband for a divorce on the 18th of January, 1847, and obtained the divorce by a final judgment rendered on the 8th of February, 1847.

The parties had lived apart from each other three years before the divorce, the wife in New Orleans, and the husband in the parish of Jefferson.

Alemnder Ewing acquired by purchase a slave, on the 1st of February, 1847, and a lot of ground on the 4th of May, 1848 ; and he died in August, 1859. His divorced wife, alleging that her husband had died intestate, without descendants or ascendants, claims one-half of…