Succession of Déjan v. Schaeffer
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from tlie Civil District Court for tlie Parish of Orleans. Tissot, J. 1. Federal authority is powerless to control prohibited mairiages between white and blacfc citizens of a State. 3-1 Ann. 269. Therefore, Art. 95 C. C. 3825, preservod its original force until November 14, 1870, so that a civil marriage on the 18th of February, I860was null and void and no community resulted, to he dissolved by any court of justice.
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APPEAL from tlie Civil District Court for tlie Parish of Orleans. Tissot, J. 1. Federal authority is powerless to control prohibited mairiages between white and blacfc citizens of a State. 3-1 Ann. 269. Therefore, Art. 95 C. C. 3825, preservod its original force until November 14, 1870, so that a civil marriage on the 18th of February, I860was null and void and no community resulted, to he dissolved by any court of justice. Succ, Colwell, 34 Ann.; 4 Wash. 371; 12 Wall. 430 * If Yall. 7C; 1 Woods, 537.169; id* 80; 48 Cal. 36, 48Ind. 327 ; 21 Ohio St. 198; 53 Ala. 150; 42 Ala. 125, 525; 106 XT.…
1Opinion of the Court
' The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Poché, J.
Plaintiffs, suing as the natural brothers of Pierre Déjan, deceased, claim, as his only heirs at law, the naked ownership of the property belonging to Mm, as forming part of tbe community alleged to have existed between him and his surviving wife, up to the day of his death, on the 30th of October, 1886, he having left no children and no will.
The defense is that there is no property belonging to the community which once existed between Pierre Dejan and his widow; that said community was dissolved by the judgment of a competent court rendered…
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