Le Bleu v. North American Land & Timber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twelfth District Oourt, Parish of Oalcasieu. Fournet, J. Marie Victoria Verret, wife of Alphonse Amédé Oorbelle, to whom he was married in the parish of Oalcasieu in 1867, died on the 4th October, 1888, leaving as her heirs nine minor children, issue of this marriage.
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APPEAL from the Twelfth District Oourt, Parish of Oalcasieu. Fournet, J. Marie Victoria Verret, wife of Alphonse Amédé Oorbelle, to whom he was married in the parish of Oalcasieu in 1867, died on the 4th October, 1888, leaving as her heirs nine minor children, issue of this marriage. Two of these children, one a son the other a daughter, died after their mother without descendants and intestate, The succession of the wife was only opened in 1888, at which time the father was appointed and qualified as natural tutor of his children after an inventory had been taken of the property of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
The first question before us is the action of the court in overruling defendant’s objection to the want of proper parties. If the allegations of plaintiffs be true, that the property in question belonged to the community, which was free from debt, and that after the death of the wife the father sold the entire property as his own by private acts, absolutely ignoring any interest therein of his children, each one of these children had the right separately and apart from the others to bring an action for the recovery of the undivided…
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