Succession of Marinovich

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

The question presented by this appeal is the legal sufficiency of family) meeting proceedings taken in the matter of the appointment of a dative tutor to minors.

Antoine Marinovich died in 1896, leaving a widow and eleven descendants. Pour of the latter were, at the time, majors; the remainder minors.

The widow and mother was, in due course, confirmed as natural tutrix of the minors, and her son-in-law, Matthew Jones, who had married one of the daughters of age, was appointed under-tutor and qualified as such.

In September 1899 the widow…