Legal Opinion

Succession of Rieger

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided February 15, 1885No. 9212PublishedCited by 3 opinions

APPEAL from the Civil District Court, for the Parish of Orleans; Monroe, J.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poci-nii, J.

This controversy involves the correctness of a provisional account of administration, presented by the administratrix who is the surviving widow of the deceased.

There are no children of the marriage, and the contest is between the administratrix and the collateral heirs of her husband.

The contention on appeal hinges upon an item of $10,000, charged in the account as the widow’s claim of her paraphernal rights against the community ; and it presents also an opposition to an item of $1350 allowed for the claim of a deceased child of the…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Guilott v. GuilottLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1976
  2. Peters v. NorrisSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1938
  3. Slack v. DunnLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1941

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