Cavelier v. Germain
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROEATES FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. The plaintiff is the grandmother and tutrix of three minor children of Felicité Tagiasco, who died in 1833. On her petition a family meeting was convened, which determined ■that it was for the interest of the minors, that a house belonging to them, situated in St. Peter street, in the city of New-Orleans, should be sold on certain conditions.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROEATES FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. The plaintiff is the grandmother and tutrix of three minor children of Felicité Tagiasco, who died in 1833. On her petition a family meeting was convened, which determined ■that it was for the interest of the minors, that a house belonging to them, situated in St. Peter street, in the city of New-Orleans, should be sold on certain conditions. The proceedings of this meeting were homologated, and the sale was made on the 11th of June, 1833, by the Register of Wills, agreeably to the order of the judge of probates. It was…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The defendant on a rule to show cause why he should not be decreed to comply with the conditions on which a house and lot, the property of the minor wards of the plaintiff had been adjudicated to him, urged that the plaintiff did not give the bond required by law, from her as tutrix, till two days after the adjudication.
She showed that after the adjudication, she under an order of court, submitted it to the consideration of a family meeting, whether it was for the interests of the minors to have a new adjudication made, or the former ratified, and their opinion, which was for the latter…
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