Powers v. Mortee
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana
[This was a proceeding by Charles Powers, guardian of the children of James Brown, Jr., deceased, against Anna Olivia Mortee and Thomas J. Mortee, her husband, to set aside proceedings of the Eighth district court of Louisiana appointing defendants tutrix and ■co-tutor of the minors, as illegal, and therefore null and void, and seeking to recover as much of the property of James Brown, Jr., as belongs to the children.]
1Opinion of the Court
McCALEB, District Judge.
The late James Brown, Jr., who was for many years a citizen of this state, and a resident of the parish of St. Tammany, departed this life on the 16th of September, 1S53. He died intestate, leaving two children, viz: Adelaide Clare, aged ten years, and Emma Eliza, aged eight years, who were the only children bom of his marriage with his first wife, Eliza Hosmer. He also left as widow in community Bosa Ginault, his second wife, who was pregnant at the time of his death, and who has since been delivered of a female child, named Louisa Laura. The first wife of Brown died…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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