Successions of Cason
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Parish Court, parish of Claiborne. McClendon. Special Judge. The community of a previous marriage must be settled and the debts-paid before the widow of a subsequent marriage can claim the thousand dollars gratuity out of the property of the first community. 0. 0. 2402 ; 29 An. 583 ; 31 An. 495 ; 21 An. 520 ; 6 An. 441; 5 N. S. 568.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
M. S. and Polly Oason were husband and wife. Polly Cason died in 1877. M. S. Oason married Elizabeth Thames in 1878, and shortly thereafter died, leaving her a necessitous widow. The succession of M. S. and Polly Oason was then opened. The property inventoried was, nearly all, property of the community of acquets and gains which had subsisted between M. S. and Polly Oason. The most important part of the property was a tract of land belonging to the community, upon which Murrell & Barnes held a mortgage for a community debt. The contest here…
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