Succession of Delaneuville v. Duhé
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Certiorari to Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit, Parish of St. John the Baptist. Action by the administrators of the succession of Madame Adolph Delaneuville and others against Cecile Duhé and others. Judgment for defendants was affirmed by the Court of Appeal, and plaintiffs applied for certiorari or writ of review.
1Opinion
On the Merits.
Succession is the transmission of the rights and obligations of the deceased to his heirs; and it signifies also the estates, rights, and charges, which a person leaves after his death, whether the charges exceed the property, or the property exceeds the charges, or there be nothing left but charges; and it includes, not only the rights and obligations of the deceased, as they exist at the time of his death, but all that has accrued thereto since the opening of the succession, as, also, the new charges to which it becomes subject. Civ. Code, arts. 871, 872, 873. The succession *67of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Woodward v. ThomasSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1886
- Ware v. BerlinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1891
- Judson v. ConnollySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1849
- Succession of HarkinsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1847
- Hall v. Emerson's CuratorSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1837
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