Corner v. Bourg

The plaintiff, the surviving widow of Michel Bourg, being in necessitous circumstances, opposed the account of the defendant, the administrator of her husband’s succession, on the ground that she is entitled to $1000 under the homestead law. Revised Statutes, 1693,1694. The court found that she only possessed, in her own right, property of the value of $50, and gave her judgment for $950. The defendant appeals. He claims in this court a reversal of the judgment:

First — Because there is a minor of the decéased by a previous marriage who is entitled to the homestead in preference to the…