The Morehouse clarion., 1880-07-09

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trict Court, Parish of Morehouse. Mrs.
Mary A. Worley, wife, VS.. Joseph j..
Morley, husband.
By reason of the law and the evidence
in this case being in favor of plaintiff
and against defendant, and by further
reason Of Judgment by default having
been regularly rendered, and the same
not having been set aside by answer OF
otherwise, and two clear judicial days
having elapsed since said judgment by
default was rendered, and plaintiff hav-
ing made full proof of her demand in
open court. 1t is ordered, adjudged and
decreed by the Court that there be judg
ment in favor of plaintiff and against
defendant, dissolving the community of
acquets and gains heretofore existing be-
tween plaintiff and defendant, and de-
creeing the following described property
to be the separate and paradhernal pro-
sase1sESed ri ssiffie Merkouge. said par
ish OF Morehouse, containing thirteen
hundred and Twenty-Five and 54-lO0
ACRES according to the United States sur
vey, being the same land acquired by
Warren Afford Cher father) by purchase
from the following named persons Six
hundred and sixty three and 66- loo acres
from Mrs. Mary Mcdowell, and Clark
Mcdowell, three, hundred and thirty-two
and 14-lO0 acres from Charles O. and
Elizabeth Henderson, three hundred and
thirty three and 14-l00 acres from Mrs.
Mary Mcdowell, lying principally in
township 81 north and range and
seven east, also an undivided half of
about twenty six hu ndred acres of land
adjoining the Arkansas line, known as
the Holly Ridge place, being land enter
ed jointly by Warren Afford and Wash
ington F. Brown, one hundred acres of
the first above described land of the fol-
lowing description having been reserved
by said Warren Afford for his use during
his natural life, viz: Commencing at
northwest corner of the store lot belong
ing at time of donation to B. Siberia
gel, running north 80 deg: ees, east the |
full width of the tract purchased from
Mrs. Mcdowell and her husband, Clark |
Mcdowell, and west on the line be-
tween his purchase from Mrs. Mary Nc |
Dowel and husband, Clark Mcdowell,
said lands having been acquired by |
donation from her father, Warren Al
ford, on the 21st day of October, 1867,
the act of donation having been passed
before Isaac T. Naff, Recorder of More
house parish, and recorded in Notarial
Book H., PIP. 482. 483. From the above
described land is to be excepted the fol-
lowing part which was sold by plaintiff
to Thomas Andrews of said parish on
the 3lst August, 1877, viz:
Commencing at southernmost corner
OF section 80, township 81. north range
east, near the residence of Thomas
Andrews, thence running north 60 de-
grees west IS $500 chairs to point in
the middle of the road opposite the west
line OF Andrews q Pipes Store lot; then
north 80 degrees east 80 7O-lOO chains,
thence south 60 degrees east IS $500
chains to point on the. line dividing
sections 81, 80 and 80 from sections az
and 43 thence south 80 degrees west to
The place of beginning, containing
III w 100 acres inclusive of a triangle Of
52-10O acres in the south corner Of this
survey, which is now owned and occu-
pied as residence by said Thomas An
lrews.
1t is further ordered, adjudged and
iecreed that the following personal pro-
oerty be and the same be set apart and 4
declared the separate and paraphernal
property of plaintiff, viz: Sixty head of
attic marked swallow-fork in the right,
md crop and split in the left ear;
twenty-five head of hogs, one wagon
nd one buggy, now in her possession in
aid parish.
1t is further ordered, adjudged and
ecreed that plaintiff take the separate
ontrol and administration of her said
eparate and paraphernal property.
Readand signed in open court this
he 18th day of April, 1850.
j. HARVEY BRIGHAM,
Judge 9th District. I
A true copy. a
Nv. ROSS, Clerk 9th Dist. .