Legal Opinion

Tutorship of Minor Heirs & Succession of Kidd

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided April 17, 1899No. 13,016PublishedCited by 14 opinions

ON APPEAL from the Third Judicial District Court for the-Parish of Lincoln. Barksdale, J.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, O. J.

James I. Kidd, a resident of the parish of Lincoln,, died in that parish on the twenty-ninth of January, 1896, leaving a-surviving wife and four minor children, issue of his marriage with his said wife, in February or March, 1880.

He had been previously married, in 1870, to Martha R. Sims, who-died on the twenty-fifth of August, 1871.

Of this marriage was one child, Ernest S. Kidd, who survived his mother.

The widow of James I. Kidd qualified as natural tutrix of their minor children, and proceeded to administer the succession of her…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Brown v. BrownTennessee Supreme Court · 1849
  2. Commagere v. GallySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1834
  3. McCall v. MercierSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1830

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Beals v. FontenotCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1940
  2. Munchow v. MunchowSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1915
  3. Succession of VideauLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1967
  4. Dillon v. FrevilleSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1912
  5. Thompson v. VanceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1903

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