Legal Opinion

Succession of Meteye

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 16, 1905No. 15,226PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal, from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; John St. Paul, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Alice M. Meteye, wife of Numa J. Aubry. Application of Numa J. Aubry to be recognized as an owner of one half the property belonging to the community, and to be decreed usufructuary of the other half. From an order denying the same, he appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.

Numa J. Aubry, plaintiff, asks to be recognized by the court’s decree as the owner of one half of the property belonging to the community dissolved by the death of his wife, and to be decreed usufructuary of the other half after a liquidation of her succession.

At his instance an inventory was made of the separate property of the deceased, consisting of real estate appraised at $3,000, and real property belonging to the community appraised at $1,800.

The inventory further sets forth that the-community owned one deposit in the Ger-mania Savings Bank amounting to $1,021.34, another to the sum of…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Childers v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1851
  2. Courrege v. ColginSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1899
  3. Wimbish v. GraySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1845

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Slater v. CulpepperSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1957
  2. Gouaux v. BeaullieuSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1909
  3. Payton v. JonesLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1949
  4. Whited v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1963
  5. Succession of SharpeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1925

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