Legal Opinion

Succession of Derouen

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided September 15, 1855PublishedCited by 3 opinions

from the District Court of St. Martin, Dapré, J.

1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.

Julie Derouen, wife of M'angois Bourriaque, died, leaving a separate estate of $21,282 33.

Her surviving husband appears to have had no separate estate.

There was property belonging to the community of acquets subsisting between the deceased and her surviving husband, amounting (nett) to $6100, of which her husband, of course, owned one half, or $3000.

The deceased, Mrs. Bourriaque, left eight children, namely, five, issue of her first marriage with one Segura, and three by her second husband Bourriaque. The share (one eighth) of each child in the succession of Mrs. Bourriaque, including her…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Smitherman v. SmithermanLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1970
  2. Succession of MorrisSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1915
  3. Succession of MonroeLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1986

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