Succession of Sallier
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Winston Over-ton, Judge ad hoc. In the matter of the succession, of Joseph Charles Sallier. Petition by Rhoda Ella Pithon against J. W. Rosteet and. another to annul certain proceedings in the matter of the settlement of the succession and for partition. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
This is an action to annul proceedings in matter of the settlement of the succession of Joseph Charles Sallier and for a partition. Joseph Charles Sallier died intestate.
Nearly all the property left at his death was community property.
Mrs. Sallier retained one half of the community in her own right, as she was entitled to do, and the other half as usufructuary, and as usufructuary she furnished the required bond.
She was on good terms with the heirs of her husband, his nephews and nieces. He left no descendants or ascendants. They parted with the interest in the property left by Joseph Charles…
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