Succession of Reiss
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Oivil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Theard, J. These proceedings come before this Honorable Court on an {appeal from a judgment, of a mixed character, rendered herein on a rule to compel a father and natural tutor to send his children to visit their grandmother, at such a time as the court might determine, at her residence and domicile.
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APPEAL from the Oivil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Theard, J. These proceedings come before this Honorable Court on an {appeal from a judgment, of a mixed character, rendered herein on a rule to compel a father and natural tutor to send his children to visit their grandmother, at such a time as the court might determine, at her residence and domicile. The evidence shows that for years past the defendant had deprived the plaintiff of the privilege of seeing her grandchildren, or of having access to them. • He had no reas'on for his actions. Mrs. Reiss is a lady of means and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Breaux, J.
The father and tutor of two minor children, one eight and the other six years of age, is defendant in a rule issued at the instance of their maternal grandmother to compel him to send his *350children to visit her, at her residence and domicil, on such days and at such hours as the court may deem .proper to determine.
She alleges that he arbitrarily, wantonly, maliciously and cruelly denies her the privilege of seeing her grandchildren, thus abusing "parental authority, controllable by the courts.
The defendant denies that he has refused to mover…
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