Succession of Bourgeois
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred D. King, Judge. Proceeding on oppositions to the account of the administrator of Joachim Bourgeois, deceased. From a judgment rejecting the oppositions, the claimants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProtosty, C. J.
Joachim Bourgeois, the decedent, was born of slave parents, on a plantation in this state, in 1841. He died in this city in 1921.
His mother, Adelaide Paquet, was born in 1820. She had two brothers — Jean Baptiste and Jean Julien Toto Paquet. At what dates these brothers were born is not shown. The children of these brothers are claiming the estate as against the state, to whom it has been assigned, in the absence of legal heirs, by the public administrator in the final account of his administration of the succession; The said claimants, cousins of the decedent, are Marie Emma Paquet, born in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Succession of Fletcher v. DecoudreauSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1856
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