Doumeing v. Haydel
Supreme Court of Louisiana
appeal prom the court op probates por THE PARISH OP ST. JOHN T11E BAPTIST. The plaintiff alleges, that in 1833 and 1834 he employed one Lucien Troxler, a minor son then living with his mother, and natural tutrix in the parish of St. John the Baptist, .and with his mother’s consent, to sell goods on his account as a hawker or pedler; and for this ptirpose furnished him with a cart and two horses,, and a stock of goods' amounting to seven thousand six hundred and seventy-two…
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appeal prom the court op probates por THE PARISH OP ST. JOHN T11E BAPTIST. The plaintiff alleges, that in 1833 and 1834 he employed one Lucien Troxler, a minor son then living with his mother, and natural tutrix in the parish of St. John the Baptist, .and with his mother’s consent, to sell goods on his account as a hawker or pedler; and for this ptirpose furnished him with a cart and two horses,, and a stock of goods' amounting to seven thousand six hundred and seventy-two dollars; that in the course of his trading, said Troxler only returned two. thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars,…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case the plaintiff sues to recover from the minor,. Lucien Troxler, and the succession of his deceased mother and late tutrix, the sum of five thousand one hundred and-fifty-three dollars, alleged to have been embezzled by the-minor son whilst in the employment of the plaintiff in selling-goods as a pedler, with the knowledge of his mother..
The Court of Probates rejected the claim, and the plaintiff appealed.
The counsel for the appellant relies on a provision, in the ^ t Louisiana Code, article 2297, which renders the mother (after the…
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