SUCCESSION OF BROWN

No. 84-CA-0198.

468 So.2d 794 (1985)

In the Matter of SUCCESSION OF Festus C. BROWN.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

April 16, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nita R. Gorrell, Hammond, for plaintiffappellee.

Walton J. Barnes, II, Zachary, for defendant-appellant.

Before EDWARDS, SHORTESS and SAVOIE, JJ.


EDWARDS, Judge.

The heirs of Festus C. Brown appeal a judgment of partition, which gives Mary Boudreaux Brown Sullivan half of the property and orders the other half partitioned by licitation. We reverse and remand.

In 1923 Festus Brown married Mary Boudreaux, and in 1925 he purchased an eighty-acre tract of land, which is now at issue in this partition controversy. The Browns were divorced in 1940.1 Mrs. Brown remarried, and for...

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