Michel's Heirs v. Michel's Curator
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern JDist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF ASSUMPTION. On the 11th November, 1834, Phillippe Marsoudet became the purchaser at the probate sale of the succession of Jean Michel, deceased, provoked by Jean Materre, curator of said estate, in the Court of Probates for the Parish of Assumption, of a tract of eighteen and one half arpen ts of land, fronting on the Mississippi by forty in depth, and six slaves, together with one hundred and ten shares of…
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Eastern JDist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF ASSUMPTION. On the 11th November, 1834, Phillippe Marsoudet became the purchaser at the probate sale of the succession of Jean Michel, deceased, provoked by Jean Materre, curator of said estate, in the Court of Probates for the Parish of Assumption, of a tract of eighteen and one half arpen ts of land, fronting on the Mississippi by forty in depth, and six slaves, together with one hundred and ten shares of Union Bank stock, for the sum of seven thousand one hundred and thirty dollars, applied to the judge of probates of said…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The heirs at law of Jean Michel, whose succession had been administered as vacant by a curator, prosecute the present appeal from a judgment of the Court of Probates, homologating the sale and the proceedings which led to it, of a tract of land and some slaves, upon a monition procured by the purchaser.
The alleged nullities in the proceedings had in the administration of the estate, and sale of the property, are four:
1st. That the inventory and appraisement of the property under which the sale was made, is not a legal inventory; does not contain the mention that it was done in presence of any…
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