Grandchamps v. Delpeuch
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal fiom the Court of Probates of New Orleans, Bermudez, J. Donations inter vivos, though made by marriage-contract to the husband and wife, or to either of them, are subject to the general rules prescribed for the donations made under that title, and are, at the time of the opening of the succession of the donor, reducible to the portion which the law permitted him to dispose of. Civ.
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Appeal fiom the Court of Probates of New Orleans, Bermudez, J. Donations inter vivos, though made by marriage-contract to the husband and wife, or to either of them, are subject to the general rules prescribed for the donations made under that title, and are, at the time of the opening of the succession of the donor, reducible to the portion which the law permitted him to dispose of. Civ. Code, arts. 1727, 1735. The father and mother of the parties having settled jointly on their daughters, Delpeuch and Foulon, each a dowry of $3000, without distinguishing the part settled by each of the said…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
This is an action brought by Émile Grand-champs to obtain from his sisters and co-heirs, Louise M. C. Delpeuch, M. E. Foulon, and M. M. Conseil, the collation to the successions of his father and mother, of certain sums of money they have respectively received in advance of their hereditary *431shares in such successions. The statement of facts shows, that his sisters, Delpeuch and Foulon, received by marriage-contract, as a dowry jointly settled upon them by their father and mother, the sum of $3000 each, and that Madame Conseil received, as a part of her hereditary rights in the succession of…
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