Sims v. Billington
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Tenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of *- Avoyelles. Oullom, J. This suit involves the settlement of the tutorship of Anna Billing-ton, now wife of Charles L. Younger by her mother, Ella Simms, now wife of William H. Jackson, the said Jackson acting as co-tutor with; his wife. Incidentally connected with this suit is the settlement of the community of acquets and gains which existed between Ella Sims and her first husband, George W. Billington.
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A PPEAL from the Tenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of *- Avoyelles. Oullom, J. This suit involves the settlement of the tutorship of Anna Billing-ton, now wife of Charles L. Younger by her mother, Ella Simms, now wife of William H. Jackson, the said Jackson acting as co-tutor with; his wife. Incidentally connected with this suit is the settlement of the community of acquets and gains which existed between Ella Sims and her first husband, George W. Billington. George W. Billington and Ella Sims were married on March 10, 1876. George Billington died in April, leaving one child, Anna…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
An examination of the evidence in the case satisfies us that the engine, whose price, after being sold by Mrs. Billing-ton, was placed on the first inventory taken, as an asset of the separate estate of her husband George Billington, was properly placed there. There is some conflict of testimony as to the date of its purchase, but we think it was bought in 1875, prior to Billington’s marriage. The entry on the inventory remained unquestioned as to its correctness up to the time that the minor called for an account, and during the…
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