Case ID: la-ann_12/html/0232-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Spoeford, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Celestine Molaison v. V. Hébert, Executor, et al.
    
    There is no law authorizing the court to appoint a curator ad 7ioo to represent the slaves of a testator in a suit brought by his forced heirs to annul the disposition of the will enfranchising them.
    APPEAL from the District Court of West Baton Rouge, Rob&rtson, J.
    
      Andrew 8. Herron, for plaintiff
    
      Ba/rrow & Petit, for defendants and appellants.
   Spoeford, J.

This suit was brought by certain persons alleging themselves to be forced heirs of Jacques Molaison, deceased, against his testamentary executor, for the purpose of annulling a nuncupative testament by public act, and setting aside a disposition by which the testator had sought to enfranchise certain slaves.

The District Judge thinking it necessary that the slaves should be represented, appointed a curator ad, hoe for them. Upon a hearing, there was judgment setting aside that portion only of the will which purported to manumit the slaves.

The curator ad hoe alone has appealed, and no answer to the appeal has been filed.

We have been referred to no law authorizing a curator ad hoe to stand in judgment in such a proceeding as this, and we do not think it was contemplated by the law-giver.

The only decree we can make is to dismiss the appeal;

Appeal dismissed.

Lea, J., absent.