The Morehouse clarion., 1880-07-16
JUDGMENT.


STATE OF LOUIsIANA-Sixth Dis
trict Court, Parish of Morehouse. Mrs.
Mary A. Worley, wife, VS.. Joseph j.
Worley, 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 or
otherwise, and two clear judicial days
having elapsed since said judgment by
default was rendered, and plaintiff hsv
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, dissolying the community Of
acquets and gains heretofore existing be-
tween plaintiff and defendant, and de-
| creeing the following described property
| perty of plaintiff, viz: A tract of land
situated in Prairie MerRouge, said Ipar
ish of Morehouse, containing thirteen
hundred and Twenty-Five and 54l00
acres according to the United States sur
vey. being the same land acquired by
Warren Afford her father) by purchase
from the following named persons Six
hundred and sixty three and &C. 100 acres
from Mrs. Mary Mcdowell. and Clark
Mcdowell, three. hundred and thir.y-twc
and 14-l00 acres from Charles O. and
Elizabeth Henderson, three hundred and
thirty three and 14-l00 acres from Mrs.
Mary Mcdowell, lying principally liz
township 81 north and range and
seven east, also an undivided half OF
about twenty six hundred acres of land
adjoining the Arkansas line, known az
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
Dowen 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. 492. 453. 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 SO, township 81. north range
z east, near the residence of Thomas
Andrews, thence running north 80 de-
grees west IS $500 chairs to point in
The middle of the road opposite the west
line of Andrews 4 Pipes Store lot; then
north 80 degrees east SO 70-l0O 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 |
l2l OF 100 acres inclusive of q triangle of
52-1O0 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
lecreed that the following personal pro-
,erty be and the same be set apart and
declared the separate and paraphernal
property Of plaintiff, viz: Sixty head eff
attic marked swallow-fork in the right.
nd crop and split in the left ear;
twenty-five head of hogs, one wagon
md one buggy, now in her possession in
aid parish.
It is FIN ther ordered, adjudged and
lecreed that plaintiff take the separate
ontrol and administration of her said
eparate and paraphernal property.
Read and signed in open court this
he goth day of April, 1851.
J. HARVEY BRIGHAM,
Judge 9th District.
A true copy. |!
w. ROSS, Clerk 9th Dist