Pecastaing v. Globe Indemnity Co.

This is an action by a dative tutor on behalf of his minors, against their father and the surety on the bond he gave as their natural tutor and to secure the price for which his minor children’s property was adjudicated to him as parent holding the property in common with them. Act No. 223 of 1920; Act No. 68 of 1924; Act No. 283 of 1926; Act No. 106 of 1924.

There was judgment below for plaintiff as prayed for; and the surety appeals.

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Mrs. Annie Norman Pecastaing died intestate December 18, 1928, leaving four minor children born of her marriage with Cyrille Pecastaing. At her death she left…