State v. Judge of Probates
Supreme Court of Louisiana
An application for a mandamus. This is an application for a mandamus. The tutor of the minors, Hortense and Oneida Guillemin, children of the late F. A. Guillemin, residing in the parish of St. Jean Baptiste, applied to the judge of probates for that parish, some time in February, 1841, to convoke a family meeting in behalf of said minors, in relation to a sale of certain property belonging to the sue-cession of their deceased father in the city of Mew Orleans, where his…
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An application for a mandamus. This is an application for a mandamus. The tutor of the minors, Hortense and Oneida Guillemin, children of the late F. A. Guillemin, residing in the parish of St. Jean Baptiste, applied to the judge of probates for that parish, some time in February, 1841, to convoke a family meeting in behalf of said minors, in relation to a sale of certain property belonging to the sue-cession of their deceased father in the city of Mew Orleans, where his succession was opened. A family meeting was convoked accordingly and recommended the sale of the property and fixed the…
1Opinion of the CourtMoepht, J.
This is an application for a mandamus to compel the judge of the court of probates for the parish of St. John the Baptist to grant an order for the sale of property, pursuant to the deliberations of a family meeting of the minors Guillemin, held in the said parish, where the tutor of the said minors resides. In answer to the rule, the judge shows for cause why the writ should not issue:
1. That the succession of the late B. A. Guillemin, the father of the minors, was opened and is still pending and unsettled before the court of probates for the parish and city of Mew Orleans, which therefore…
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