Succession of Vollmer
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans. Houston, J. In order for a person to be legally adopted, it is necessary that tho authority of the court should first be obtained. The execution of an act of adoption before a notary without other formality does not constitute a legal adoption. Act Ho. 48 of X865: R. S., Secs. 2322 to 2328; Article 2X4 of R. C, C.; Succession of Hosser, 37 Ann. 840. A wife who renounces the community, loses all sort of right thereto.
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans. Houston, J. In order for a person to be legally adopted, it is necessary that tho authority of the court should first be obtained. The execution of an act of adoption before a notary without other formality does not constitute a legal adoption. Act Ho. 48 of X865: R. S., Secs. 2322 to 2328; Article 2X4 of R. C, C.; Succession of Hosser, 37 Ann. 840. A wife who renounces the community, loses all sort of right thereto. R. C. O. 24X1. Unless a divorced wife applies within ten days from the rendition of the judgment of divorce for an…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
The object of this suit is to recover the entirety of the Succession of the deceased.
To that end, the plaintiff alleges that she was legally adopted by the deceased and her husband, Tobias Vollmer, and thus acquired all the rights vested by law in legitimate descendants; that Johanna Vollmer has departed this life, without issue, or forced heirs, leaving a will by public act, by which she institutes her husband her universal legatee; that said will is a nullity, in not stating that the officiating witnesses are residents of the place;…
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