Penny v. Weston
Supreme Court of Louisiana
This case brought from the Court of Probates of East Feliciana, was tried before Butler, J., sitting under the act of 27 February, 1841, ch. 32, in the District Court of that parish, for the trial of certain cases in which the Judges of the District and Parish Courts had recused themselves or been recused; and the defendants are appellants from his judgment.
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
Malachi Weston senr. died in the Parish of East Feliciana leaving two sons, Malachi Weston jun. and Robert Weston and a widow in community. Robert married Sarah Ann Kirkland, and died leaving one child and his widow. The child afterwards died, and his mother became his sole heir. She institutes this action, claiming, in the right of her deceased child» a partition of the grandfather’s estate, which she alleges has been in possession of the grandmother, and of Malachi Weston junr. ever since his death, and that its revenues and profits have been enjoyed by them exclusively. It is alleged that…
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