Case ID: la-ann_18/html/0611-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hxman, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Olivier P. Normand v. Elmire Barbin, Administratrix.
    An action was instituted against the administratrix of a doceased person who, during his lifetime had been the tutor of minor children, to make tho successiondiable for board of the minors:
    
      Held .' — That the debt was not tho debt of tho tutor, but the debt of tho minors ; that tho action should hftvo been brought against the tutor, and if no now tutor had boon appointed, tho plaintiff should have asked for the appointment of a tutor ad hoc, to ropresont tlio minors in his suit.
    APPEAL from the District Court, Parish of Avoyelles,
    
      Gidlom, J. Waddill & Barbin, for appellant. Gidlom <® Thorpe, for appelleo.
    The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
   Hxman, C. J.

The minors, Celina, Emile, Adolph, and Camile Bobouché, became indebted for board to. Mrs. Pierre Normand, during the timo that Joseph P. Normand was their tutor.

Joseph P. Normand died, and Mrs. Pierre Normand transferred her claim against said minors to plaintiff, who brought suit against Elmire Barbin as the administratrix of tho succession of of Joseph P. Normand, deceased, to recover from her, as administratrix, the amount of tho claim and interest.

The District Judge rendered judgment against tho administratrix for the claim, with interest, condemning her to pay the same in due course of administration of said succession.

From this judgment she has appealed.

It is clear that the claim sued on is owing by tho minors alone, and that the succession of Joseph P. Normand is not liable to be sued for the debt of the minors.

The action should have been brought against .their tutor, or if no tutor had been appointed for them after the death of Joseph P. Normand, plaintiff should have asked that a tutor ad hoc be appointed for them, against whom plaintiff should have instituted his suit. See C. P. 115, 116, 964.

It is ordered, adjudged and decreed, that tho judgment of the lower Court be reversed.

It is further decreed, that there be judgment in favor of the defendant.

It is further decreed 'that plaintiffs pay all the costs incurred in this suit,