The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1901-11-09
JUDICIAL LADyEasTEsEMENTs.
HUDGNENT.
JENNIE JOSEPHINE THOMPSON, Wife.
VS..
DIR. G. NJ. COMPTON, Husband.
No. 1880,
10th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, ST. Lam
DRY PARISH, La.

This is suit by Mrs. Jennie J. Thompson
wife of DR.. G. M. Compton, for a separation OF
property from him, for a dissolution or Inc
community of acquets and gains heretofore eX
listing between them, for the resumption by hel
OF the control and Administration OF her separate
estate, and for Judgment authorizing her u
carry OH an industry and business OF her own
free from the control and administration of hel
husband, for her own separate, exclusive bene
fit and advantage, and i'll her own name She
also asks that the property and estate specially
described i'll her petition he decreed to be her
separate individual. parapLernal estate, and
that she be vested with the exclusive control
and administration thereof. The plaintiff was
duly authorized to institute and prosecute tnls
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, a judgment
was rendered i'll favor of the plaintiff on coupe
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
i'll favor of the plaintiff and against the de
fendant, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed
that plaintiff be and she is hereby separated in
property from her husband; that the COM
munity 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 7, 1901 that plaintiff is reinstated 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
name, and for her exclusive and personal
interest, benefit and advantage, likewise free
from the interference and control of her Ius-
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
paraphernal property of the plaintiff, to-wit:
1st.-The undivided one-half of the coax
land" plantation, together with all the tracts
of land thereto attached, and with al the
mi ninr JyOOnT
oD, situated on the east side OF Bayou Courta-
bleau, opposite the town Of Washington, in
above parish. containing about seven thousand
(7000) acres of land and bounded on the north by
lands of estate OF Scribner estate of Louis Webb,
et.al. south and west by Bayou Courtableau, east
by John 4. Taylor, ct. ais together with fifty
nine mules, six work oxen, cane, road machine,
cultivator, wagons, carts, and all other aratory
implements on and belonging to said place.
Also s. E. of Sect. 81, I. f. s. r: E., contain
ing 800 acres adjoining above plantation; also
tract. Sect. 10, T. 4, s. r. E., containing 2lS
acres; also s. Z. ! of N. Z. l. Sect 49, T. ), s. r..
E., containing forty acres. beiLg same prop
erty acquired by and through an act of parti-
ton. on Jany. 20, 1899, being No. A2857 OF Re
cOrder's files, duly recorded i'll above parish
2d.-The undivided One-half of a 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 one quarter OF
lot Of ground in said town, bounded north n by
by St. Johns st., and west by TrOusdale. known
as 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.
3i-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
pr0veinents thereon, bounded north by Desnla-
rails 4 Lassalle' south by -T sit st., east by.
the same property of which the residence lot
WAS acquired by V. ". Boagni on Feb. %. 1899,
RS per act No 42911 Of Recorders files, and the
''Otfiee lot" was acquired of the st. Landry Fl.
J.. Association in April 1899, as per act No.
431O1 of Recorders files, duly recorded in above
parish.
arpents Of land, bought by the late Mrs. L. nj.
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. L. A. Millard, duly
probated by judgment of above court on file in
her estate. ...
5th.-A certain note. dated March 28, 1900,
payable one year from SAID date, signed by b.
NJ. Lambert and w. W. DusOn. and endorsed,
for (S6571.00) 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, from.the estate of the late DR..
Vincent Boagui.
1t is further ordered that defendant pay all
costs of this suit, to be taxed.
Done, read and signed in open Court. at Ope-
l0usas, La, this 10 day of Oct. A. D., 1901. In
terlineations and erasures ON lines 2S to 10 made
before Judgment signed.
[Sgd.I L. r. LEWIS,
.s Judge 10th Jud. Dist. of La.
Filed Oct. 10, 1901.
a true copy ::
o. b. THOMPSON, D'y Clerk.
Oct &c, 1901.