Case ID: mann-unrep-cas_1/html/0217-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "De Blanc, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 6769.
    Succession of Henriette Dreux. Opposition of Auguste Coudreau.
    A marriage celebrated between a woman of color and a white man in 1857 in this State is an absolute nullity, and neither of the parties can pretend to derive from it any of the consequences of a lawful marriage.
    The woman dying, a claim of the marital fourth hy the man surviving is preposterous.
    Appeal from the Second District Court of New Orleans. Tissot, J.
    
      Duguè for Executor Appellant. Breaux, Fenner & Hall for Opponent.
   De Blanc, J.,

delivered the opinion reversing the judgment.