Eloi v. Eloi

The. opinion of the Court was delivered by

PoonÉ, J.

This is an action for the interdiction of the defendant, who is now under sentence of death for the murder of his wife.

*564The plaintiff, Ms mother, alleges that he is of unsound mind and wholly irresponsible for his actions, and that he has' been in that condition from his infancy, insanity being hereditary in his family.

The case was tried contradictorily with a curator ad?hoc appointed by the court, and the judgment was against plaintiff. Hence this_ap-peal.

Under the order of the court the defendant was thoroughly examined by a commission of…