Legal Opinion

Succession of Burrell

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided April 29, 1907No. 16,384PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; John St. Paul, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Cecile Burrell, born Smith. Prom an order refusing to revoke an appointment as tutor, the undertutor appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.

In this case, the mother and tutrix having died, the undertutor asks that a family meeting be convoked to recommend a proper person for appointment as tutor, and that the maternal grandfather of the minor be excluded from said tutorship.

All three of the grounds for exclusion from tutorship prescribed by article 303, Civ. Code, are alleged against the grandfather, viz.: (1) Conduct notoriously bad; (2) incapacity to manage his own affairs; (3) neglect to have caused an inventory to be made of the property of the minor.

The property of the minor consists of some jewelry, worth about $200, of the…

2Cited by23 opinions

  1. Langlois v. Allied Chemical CorporationSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1971
  2. Di Carlo v. Laundry & Dry Cleaning ServiceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1933
  3. Germann v. 557 Tire Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1928
  4. Winner v. Marion County Com'nSupreme Court of Alabama · 1982
  5. Kentucky-Ohio Gas Co. v. BowlingCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1936

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