Brown v. Cobb
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern- Dtst. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF EAST FELICIANA. This suit was instituted in the Court of Probates for the parish of East Feliciana, by the plaintiff, Brown, as administrator, and Charlotte Brown, his wife, as heir of the estate of Samuel Cobb, deceased, praying for authority to sell the whole property of the community existing between the deceased and his wife, Josephine Cobb, to enable them to settle and pay off the community debts, and…
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Eastern- Dtst. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF EAST FELICIANA. This suit was instituted in the Court of Probates for the parish of East Feliciana, by the plaintiff, Brown, as administrator, and Charlotte Brown, his wife, as heir of the estate of Samuel Cobb, deceased, praying for authority to sell the whole property of the community existing between the deceased and his wife, Josephine Cobb, to enable them to settle and pay off the community debts, and make a partition of the remainder among the surviving widow and heirs of the deceased husband; and that the separate…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This suit, after having passed through the ordeal of many exceptions, taken in limine' litis, finally settled down in a contest touching the partition of the community property acquired during the marriage of the defendant with Samuel Cobb. The plaintiff, Mrs. Brown, demands a division between herself (as having succeeded to the interests of the deceased husband,) and the defendant, widow, in community. As to the claim for a partition of the community of acquests and gainá, it is not disputed. But questions were made by the pleadings arising out of the different pretensions of the parties.by…
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