Labat v. Labat

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Mrs. Cecelia Guyot, widow of Emile Labat, instituted these proceedings against her son, Emile Labat, Jr., seeking to be recognized as the owner of a business jcnown as the Emile Labat Funeral Home, alleging that this business was her separate property acquired by her by inheritance. She also sought an accounting from the defendant from the date of her husband’s death in 1946, and on the basis of this accounting she prayed for a money judgment in the sum of $119,622.36.

After trial on the merits the trial judge found that the Emile Labat Funeral Home had been conducted' since…