Commagere v. Gally
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT OF THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. The plaintiff alleges he is the son of Pierre Commagere and Franqoise Frilonx, both deceased: that his mother died intestate, in 1800; that she had brought in marriage the sum of one thousand four hundred and eleven dollars; that during the marriage, a certain lot of ground was purchased by his parents, which after his mother’s death, was sold to Madam Mercier, for eleven thousand two hundred and fifty…
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APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT OF THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. The plaintiff alleges he is the son of Pierre Commagere and Franqoise Frilonx, both deceased: that his mother died intestate, in 1800; that she had brought in marriage the sum of one thousand four hundred and eleven dollars; that during the marriage, a certain lot of ground was purchased by his parents, which after his mother’s death, was sold to Madam Mercier, for eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. The plaintiff claims on account of his share of his mother’s dotal effects, a mortgage on a lot, which he alleges…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This suit is brought by the plaintiff, as heir to his deceased mother, to recover certain real estate, and the annual fruits and profits thereof for many years in arrear; which estate he alleges, was community property belonging to his father and mother at the time of the death of the latter, and was administered and sold by the former as his natural tutor, without pursuing the formalities required by law, and who died without rendering any account of his administration. The petition is prolix and argumentative in so much, as to render it somewhat difficult, to ascertain clearly the objects…
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