Robert v. Allier's Agent
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the commercial court of New Orleans. This is an action to recover the possession of three promissory notes deposited with a notary and to remain until a competent jndicial tribunal shall decide whether they are to he given to the plaintiff or defendant Ailiex.
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Appeal from the commercial court of New Orleans. This is an action to recover the possession of three promissory notes deposited with a notary and to remain until a competent jndicial tribunal shall decide whether they are to he given to the plaintiff or defendant Ailiex. The plaintiff, Genevieve Robert, f. w. c., (elite Aubertine) claims the notes in question, or 6,000 dollars of them, as a legacy made to her natural and acknowledged daughter, Maria Josepha Robert, as her sole heir; the daughter having died in France in 1837. The defendant, Jean Charles Gustave AUier, residing in Franco,…
1Opinion of the CourtSimost, J.
Plaintiff alleges that her natural and acknowledged daughter, Maria Josepha, died in Prance, a minor and intestate, in May, 1837; that she died unmarried, without descendants, and had never been acknowledged by her father; and that she, the plaintiff, is her sole heir, and as such had accepted her succession. She further states that among the property left by her child, there was a legacy of $6000 and interest, consisting in notes, which, by a notarial act, signed by the interested parties on the 28th of October, 1839, [11] were deposited in the hands of Theodore Seghers, the notary before…
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