McGehee v. Dupuy

On the death of the plaintiff’s wife he became tutor of their minor children, and caused an inventory to be taken which exhibits some tracts of land and personal property as be*230longing to the community between him and his late wife, and a considerable property belonging to the plaintiff in his own right. It appears that the community property was adjudicated to him, at the appraised value. The wife had brought nothing into marriage, while the husband was rich.

In 1839, about one year after the death of the plaintiff’s wife, and while his children were yet under the age of puberty, he instituted…