Huset's Heirs v. Lefebvre
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT. The plaintiffs allege that they are the heirs and legal representatives of Charles M. Huset who died in the parish of Lafourche Interior, in 1812, leaving a widow Marie Haché and the aforesaid heirs, his legitimate children, most of them minors; that he owned and possessed at his death a piantation on bayou Lafourche, a negro woman, slave and her two children, all of which were sold at public sale by order of the Court…
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT. The plaintiffs allege that they are the heirs and legal representatives of Charles M. Huset who died in the parish of Lafourche Interior, in 1812, leaving a widow Marie Haché and the aforesaid heirs, his legitimate children, most of them minors; that he owned and possessed at his death a piantation on bayou Lafourche, a negro woman, slave and her two children, all of which were sold at public sale by order of the Court of Probates of said parish, in September 1812; that the sale is illegal because the widow never took the oath as natural…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The petitioners represent that they are the surviving children and heirs of Charles Mathurin Huset, deceased. That at his death they, and those whom they represent, were all minors, and that their father died seized, among other things, of a tract of land on the bayou Lafourche, and a certain slave called Isabella and her children. They represent that on the 25th of September 1812, the property was sold at auction, by authority of the Court of Probates, of the the parish of Lafourche Interior, and that the land is now in possession of the defendants Lefebvre and Guidry, and the slave in that…
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