Williams v. Chotard

In order to determine what limits, if any, exist to the authority of a tutor of a minor to purchase real estate for his ward, we must take all the provisions of the Code into consideration in a connected view.

The Article 348 authorizes such purchase to be made by the tutor, upon an order of court, rendered on the advice of a family meeting. But the Article 343 requires the tutor not to encroach upon the capital of his ward, except in one case, which is, the insufficiency of the minor’s revenue to procure him subsistence. Again, the Article 341 requires the tutor to make investments for his…