Landry v. Bertrand
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Seventeenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Lafayette. Allen, J. The defendant, as administratrix of the succession of Maximillien Landry, Jr., filed a final account of her administration; plaintiffs opposed the same; by judgment of court in August, 1898, the opposition was rejected, the account approved and homologated, the ad-ministratrix discharged and her bond canceled. The present suit in the District Court is to annul this judgment.
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APPEAL from the Seventeenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Lafayette. Allen, J. The defendant, as administratrix of the succession of Maximillien Landry, Jr., filed a final account of her administration; plaintiffs opposed the same; by judgment of court in August, 1898, the opposition was rejected, the account approved and homologated, the ad-ministratrix discharged and her bond canceled. The present suit in the District Court is to annul this judgment. The grounds relied upon by plaintiff are that, through the delay of the District Court in deciding the case, it had become advised…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
Plaintiff’s allegations are of the vaguest character possible. She failed to annex to her petition, as part thereof, the mortuaria of the succession of Maxmillion Landry, Jr., or any particular portions thereof. She has caused the clerk of the District; Court.none the less to copy into the transcript a certified copy of what obviously is only a part of the proceedings in the matter of that succession. If we be authorized to look into the proceedings at all under the circumstances in which they are brought up, they fail to furnish us with…
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