Chew v. Flint
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF RAPIDES. This case is founded on two oppositions to the application of the defendant, to be appointed curator of the vacant successions of Jonas Meriam and J. W. Broaddus, merchants, lately trading under the firm of Meriam & Broaddus, in the town of Alexandria, and now deceased.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF RAPIDES. This case is founded on two oppositions to the application of the defendant, to be appointed curator of the vacant successions of Jonas Meriam and J. W. Broaddus, merchants, lately trading under the firm of Meriam & Broaddus, in the town of Alexandria, and now deceased. On the 4th of February, 1833, M. P. Flint, attorney at law, applied to the judge of probates, for the parish of Rapides, for the curatorship of the successions of Meriam & Broaddus, alleging that said firm, and each of its partners, was indebted to him in the sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The controversy in this case, grows out of sundry oppositions to the appointment of the appellee, to the curatorship of the estates of Meriam & Broaddus. Only two of these oppositions are to be considered by this court, to wit: that of R. Chew, in his own right, and as the attorney in fact of numerous creditors, in New-Orleans, and of E. Hayes, who alleges himself to be a creditor. Separate appeals were taken, and prosecuted by these two parties, and have been argued together. ' The opposition of Chew was overruled, and that of Hayes not received by the court below, on the ground that it was…
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