Rousseau v. Tête

The heirs of age, and the tutor of the minor heirs of the late Eulalie Rousseau, sue for the price of certain moveable effects, and for two instalments of the price of a tract of land, adjudicated to the defendant at a probate sale of the succession of their mother, made in the Parish of Assumption, on or about the 31st of October, 1840. The defence set up is, that the probate sale, and all the proceedings which led to it, are absolutely null and void, none of the formalities required by law for the alienation of property belonging to minors having been complied with. After staling a number…