Marcel v. Stringer

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Maggie Curtis Marcel, instituted this suit against the defendants, George Stringer, who had been committed in 1933 to a mental institution but never formally interdicted, and his wife, Jennie Hunt Stringer, endeavoring to have a boundary fixed and a fence erected between their respective properties, designated as Lots “M” and “V”. No request was made by the plaintiff for the appointment of a curator ad hoc to represent the defendant, George Stringer.

Defendant, Jennie Stringer, pleaded the exception relating to her husband’s capacity to stand in judgment and the…