In re Brown
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Walter Byers Sommerville, Judge. In the matter of the tutorship of Julia Eleanor Brown. On an appointment of Marion Brown tutrix, Julia M. Brown moved to set the same aside and to be appointed tu-trix. From an order appointing the grandmother, Marion Brown appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
Marion Brown, alleging that she is the mother by adoption of Julia Eleanor Brown, after the death of the latter’s father, petitioned the court for an inventory, which was accordingly made, and the assets inherited by the minor from her mother and father were put down as worth $8,000.
Nothing was said of debts.
The act of adoption of the minor by Marion Brown states that under Act No. 81, p. 79, of the Legislative Session of 1872, she adopts her as her own child, declares in the act that the adopted child shall have all the rights of a legitimate child, and binds herself to provide for and…
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