The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1901-11-23
JUDICIAL ADVERTGsEMEN
JUDGMENT.
JENNIE JOSEPHINE THOMPSON, Wife.
VS..
DR.. G. NJ. COMPTON, Husband.
18th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, ST. Lam
DRY PARISH la
No. 1890.

This is suit by Mrs. Jennie ]. Thompson,
wife of Dr. G. NJ. Compton, for separation OF
property from him, for a dissolution OF the
community Of acquets and gains heretofore eX-
listing between them, for the resumption by her
of the control and ADMINISTRATION OF her separate
estate, and for judgment authorizing her to
carry on an industry and business Of her own,
free from the control and administration Of her
husband, for her own separate, exclusive bene-
fit and advantage, and in her own name. She
also asks that the property and estate specially
described in her petition be decreed to Se her
separate, individual, paraphernal estate, and
that she be vested with the exclusive control
and administration thereof. The plaintiff was
duly authorized to Institute and prosecute TINS
suit to final Judgment and execution, and the
defendant was duly cited and served with a
copy of her petition. He made an appearance
in the cause, and in due course, Judgment
was rendered in favor of the plaintiff on compe-
tent and full proof adduced by plaintiff in sup
port Of her demands. For these reasons, and
because of the law and the evidence, which are
in favor of the plaintiff and against the de-
fendant, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed
that plaintiff be and size is hereby separated in
property from her husband that the com
nunity of acQuets and gains heretofore exist
ing between them is hereby dissolved as of the
date OF the filing OF the petition herein, to wit:
Sept Z, 1901, that plaintiff is renstated with the
separate and exclusive control of her para
phernal estate, free from the interference or
power of her said husband over the same; that
plaintiff is authorized to prosecute separate
industry and business of her own, in her own
interest, benefit and advantage, likewise free
from the interference and control of her hus-
band, the property and earnings of such in
dustry and business to constitute, and be, the
separate, exclusive paraphernal estate of the
plaintiff 1t Is further ordered and decreed
that the following described property is. and
was, at all times, the separate, individual
paraphernal property OF the plaintiff. to-wlt:
1st.-The undivided one-half of the Oak
land" plantation, together with all the tracts
Of land thereto attached, and with all the
buildings, improvements and machinery there
on, situated on the east side OF Bayou Courta-
beau, opposite the town of Washington, in
above parish, containing about seven thousand
(7ooo) acres of land and bounded on the north by
lands of estate OF Scrbner, estate OF Louis Webb,
et.sl. south and west by Bayou C0urtableau, east
by John A. Taylor, ct. ais, together with fifty
nine mules, six work oxen, cane, road machine,
cultlvator, wagons. carts, and all other aratory
implements on and belonging t3 said place.
Also 8. E. of Sect. 81, 7. 4, S. r. E., contain
ing $40 acres, adjoining above plantation; also
acres; also 8. E. of N E. !, Sect %, T. 3, s. r.
E., containing forty acres, beib same prop
erty acquired by and through an act of parti-
tion. ON Jany. 20, 1899, being No. 42S57 of Re
Corder's files, duly recorded IL above parish.
2d.-The undivided one-haf of lot of
ground, with buildings and improvements
thereon, situated in the town of Washington.
La, bounded on the north by Bayou Courta-
bleau, south by Water Sc, east by Main ST., and
west by St. John ST.; also of ono quarter of a
lot of ground in said town, bounded north by
y.
by st. Johns st., and west by Trousdale, known
a5 the Wilkins properties, being same property
acquired by petitioner by and through an act
OF partition Of date May 6, 1899. as per act No:
1925 of Recorders files of above parish and
duly recorded.
3d.-Those certain two lots of ground, situa-
ted in the town of Opelousas, La, known as the
'.Irion residence and Office property" with the
residence, office and other buildings and i'm
proyements thereon, bounded north by Desma-
rails & Lassalle, south by -- st., east by
Market st., and west by Bayou lesson, being
the same property of which the residence lot
was acquired by v. W. Boagni on Feb. %. 1899,
as per act No. 42911 of Recorders files, and the
''offce lot" was acquired OF the ST. Landry III.
L. Association In April. 1899, as per act No.
4s101 of Recorders files, duly recorded in above
parish.
4th.-The undivided one-half of twenty-five
arpents Of land, bought b.. the late Mrs; E. M.
Millard from the estate of J. Doyle. also the
land opposite the old Steen place, in Prairie
Laurent, containing eighty seven arpents more
or less, same having been beqneathed to plain
tiff jointly with her sister Mrs. Mary A. Walker,
by the last will Of said Mrs E. A. 1fillard, duly
rrobated by Judgment of above court on file in
her estate.
5th.-A certain note. dated March %, 1900,
payable one year from SAID date, signed by b.
NJ. Lambert and W. W. Duson, and endorsed,
for 571.00l six thousand five hundred and
seventy-one dollars, bearing per cent interest
from date, as also 10 per cent attorneys fees,
and secured by special mortgage and vendors
privilege on Comeau Vacherie property in Aca-
dia Parish, and being petitioners share, in part,
of the proceeds of sale OF said property.
6th-The monies inherited by petitioner,
plaintiff herein, fromsthe estate Of the late DR..
Vincent Boagui.
It is further ordered that defendant pay all
costs Of this suit. to be taxed. ~
Done, read and signed in open Court. at Ope-
lousas, La, this 10 day of Oct. A. D., 1901. In
terlineatons and erasures on lines % to 70 made
before Judgment signed.
Judge 10th Jud. Dist. of La.
Filed Oct. 10, 1901. a
Lsgd.l A. LEON DUPRE, Dy. Clerk.
A true copy
o. B. THOMPSON, D'y Clerk. D
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