Segur v. Sorel
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Disx. APPEAL PROM THE PRORATE COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ST. MARY. This is an action of partition, and for the sequestration of a crop of sugar, in the possession of the defendants.
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Western Disx. APPEAL PROM THE PRORATE COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ST. MARY. This is an action of partition, and for the sequestration of a crop of sugar, in the possession of the defendants. The plaintiff, as the tutor of the minor son of the late Frederick Pellerin, brought this suit to sequester and divide the crop of sugar made on the paternal estate, in the year 1836, and also for the division of the proceeds of the previous crop, which he alleges, amounts to about twenty thousand dollars. The defendant, Martial Sorel, is married to the daughter, and only remaining heir of said Pellerin. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The plaintiff as tutor of C. F. Pellerin, having obtained a judgment against his co-heirs, the defendant and his wife, for the partition of the succession of their father and mother, to be made in kind, and it appearing afterwards by the report of experts, that the partition could not be effected without a sale or licitation, applied by petition to the Court of Probates, reciting , the preliminary judgment, and the impossibility of coming to a partition in nature, and praying a modification of the order, and that the same should be made by sale. He *443further represents, that since the inception…
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