Case Name: Successions of Adolphe Vives and Eleanor Hébert, his wife
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1883-03
Citations: 35 La. Ann. 371
Docket Number: No. 8829
Parties: Successions of Adolphe Vives and Eleanor Hébert, his wife.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 35
Pages: 371–374

Head Matter:
No. 8829.
Successions of Adolphe Vives and Eleanor Hébert, his wife.
■Where a man dies leaving a widow in necessitous circumstances and an insolvent estate, and tlie widow dies without claiming the $1,000 reserved to her by law, and the children of the deceased are all majors, hut there are minor grandchildren of the deceased, the offspring of a daughter who died previously to them, these grandchildren are entitled to the $1,000 from the succession, in preference to the major heirs or creditors.
APPEAL from the Twenty-third District Court, Parish of Iberville. Cole, J.
Ti. 1), Talbot for Opponents and Appellants:
1. “ "When a necessitous widow dies without having received the portion of $1,000, under tlie Act of 1832, her major heirs canaot claim that portion from the husband’s sucoossion. Only children, and her remoter descendants, who are minors and necessitous, are entitled ' to claim suoh portion.” 30 An. p. GOO, Vol. 1.
2. Grandchildren uuder tho tutorship of their father, a strong, healthy person, oannot be . regarded as in necessitous circumstances, and olaim said portion under the Act of 1852, the principle being identical with that laid down in 30 An. p. 1130.
3. Evidence in support of claims in tho administrator’s acoount should be taken in writing and annexed to tho record.
David N. Barrow, contra.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Todd, J.
This controversy grows out of an opposition to the final account of the administrator of these successions.
The opponents, creditors of the deceased, are appellants from a judgment dismissing their oppositions.
There is a motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground of want of jurisdiction raMone materiw.
The fund to be distributed by the account exceeds one thousand dollars, and is still in the hands of the administrator, and the distribution of the entire amount is regulated by tlio judgment. We have, therefore, jurisdiction. Constitution, Art. 81.
The case does not come within the scope of any of the decisions cited by the appellees' counsel.
Motion to dismiss is, therefore, overruled.