Boyer v. Tassin

A rehearing has been granted in this case, for the purpose of correcting an oversight which was committed, in affirming the judgment of the District Court generally.

That judgment consisted of two branches. It removed the mother of the minors from the tutorship: and it appointed Mare Tassin, their maternal grandfather, as their tutor.

This appointment of the grandfather as tutor, was premature. The Civil Code, Article 281 and following, makes it the duty of the Judge to appoint the grandfather as tutor in default of a father and mother. But this tutorship by the effect of the law, takes place…