Succession of Veronie
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; Wm. Campbell, Judge. Proceedings in the successions of Emile Veronie and Hebrard Le Jeune. On opposition of the Crowley Bank & Trust Company, administrator, to the claims of each widow to a homestead allowance. Efom a judgment granting the homestead allowance, the administrator appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
This ease involves two homestead claims. It was tried on an agreed statement of facts. There being no dispute as to the facts, we shall state them only as far as necessary for presenting and disposing of the question of law involved.
[1] The claimants are two sisters whose husbands died shortly before this suit arose; and the tracts of land are the two halves of what was once an 80-acre tract. As to one of them, that of widow Veronie, the reason for doubting its being homestead is that in the early part of 1918 she leased it for that year in consideration of a share in the crop to be made by…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Samuel B. v. StoneTexas Supreme Court · 1857
- Lyons v. AndrySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1901
- Mann v. CorringtonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1894
- St. Mary Bank & Trust Co. v. DaigleSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
- Mason v. Columbia Finance & Trust Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1896
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