Robin v. Castille
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action by the plaintiffs, who are the father, and brother and sisters, of Aimé Robin, deceased, late wife of the defendant, J» B. Castiiie, to recover from him two sums of money, of seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars, and seven hundred and thirty dollars, which he received as. portions, during marriage, inherited by his said wife from her grandmother.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action by the plaintiffs, who are the father, and brother and sisters, of Aimé Robin, deceased, late wife of the defendant, J» B. Castiiie, to recover from him two sums of money, of seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars, and seven hundred and thirty dollars, which he received as. portions, during marriage, inherited by his said wife from her grandmother. The defendant gave his two receipts, dated in 1829 and 1830, for said sums of money. His wife afterwards died, without leaving any descendants, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Bullard J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiffs sue as heirs at law, of the deceased wife of the defendant, for the sum of one thousand four hundred and sixty-nine dollars, received by him during the marriage, as the share of his wife, in the succession of her grandmother, and which constitute her paraphernal estate. The defendant resists their claim, on the plea, that there existed between him and his late wife a community of acquests and gains, which the plaintiffs have never renounced, but which on the contrary, they have accepted purely and simply; that the community has…
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