The Opelousas courier., 1901-10-26
JUDICIAL ADVE aSTaSE NHENTS.
JUDGMENT.
JENNIE JOSEPHINE THOMPSON. Wife.
DR.. G. NJ. COMPTON, Husband.
1sth JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, ST. Ian
DRY PARISH, IA.

This is a suit by Mrs. Jennie j. Thompson,
wife of DR.. G. NJ. 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 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-
tit and advantage, and in her own name she
also asks that the property and estate specially
described in her petition be decreed to he 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 this
suit to tlual Judgment and execution. anG the
defendant was duly cited and served with
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 Oh compG-
tent and full proof adduced by plaintiff in sup
port of her demands. For these reasons, aud
in 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 froln 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 relnstated 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 la 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 hus-
band, the property and earnings of such in
dustry and business to constitute, and be, the
separate exclusive paraphernal estate of the
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 coax
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-
bleau, opposite the town OF Washington, IN
above parish, containing about seven thousand
(To0O) acres of land and bounded on the north by
lands of estate of Scribner estate of Louis Webb,
ct al. south and west by Bayou COurtableau, east
by John A. Taylor, ct. ais, together with fifty
nine mules, six work oxen, cane, road machine,
cutivator, wagons, carts, and all other aratory
implements on and belonging to said place.
Also s. E. of Sect 81, T. 4, s. E. E., contain
ing $50 acres, adjoining above plantation; also
tract. Sect. 10, L. 4. s. r. E., containing 2ls
acres; also s; E. of N. E. /, Sect 10, 7 3, s. r.
5 E., containing forty acres. being same prop
erty acquired by and through an act OF parti-
tion. on Jany. 20, 1899, being No. 1851 OF Re
corders files, duly recorded i'll above parish.
2d.-The undivided one-half 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., aud
| west by st. John st; also Of one quarter OF a
| lot of ground in said town, bounded north by
Bayou Courtableau, south by 8. Fitzhugh, east
w.
as the wilkins properties, being same property
| acquired by petitioner by and through an act
| of partition OF date May G. 1899, as per act No
| A32l5 of Recorders files OF abOve parish AND
duly recorded.
3d.-Th0se certain two lots OF ground, situa
| ted i'll the town Of Opelousas, La, known as the
| "Jrion residence and office property" with the
| residence, office and other buildings and I'M
pIovements thereon, bounded north by Desnld
rails & Lassalle, south by ST., east by
Market ST., and west by Bayou lesson, belns
x1- ioh 1nf'
was acquired by V. W. Boagni on Feb %, 1899
as per act No. 429l1 of Recorders files, and the
| "otfice lot" was acquired OF the st. Landry Il
| J.. Association i'll April, 1899, as per act NO
4slOl Of Recorders files, duly recorded in above
| parish.
| 4th-The undivided one-half of twenty-five
! arpents OF land, bought by the late Mrs. L. nj
| Mllard from the estate of' j. Doyle. also the
| land opposite the old Steen place, i'll Prairie
Laurent. containing eighty-seven arpents more
| or less, same having been be1ueathed to PLAIN
tiff, jointly with her sister Mrs. Mary A. Walker
| by the last will OF said Mrs L. A. Mllard, duly
probated by Judgment of above court on file IL
| her estate.
| 5th-A certain note. dated March 2s, 1900
payable one year from SAID date, signed by b
NJ. Lambert and W. W. Duson, and endorsed
| for (S657I.00) six thousand five hundred ant
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.
| 1t is further ordered that defendant pay al
| 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
terlneations and erasures on lines % to 10 mad
before Judgment signed.
| Isgd.I E. T. LEWIS,
! Judge 10th Jud Dist. of La
Filed Oct. l9, 1901.
lsgd.j A. LEON DUPRE, Dy. Clerk.
o. B. THOMPSON, D'y Clerk.
| Oct. 26, 1901.