Case Name: Succession of Marie Louise Cass
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1890-04
Citations: 42 La. 381
Docket Number: No. 10,447
Parties: Succession of Marie Louise Cass.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 42
Pages: 381–384

Head Matter:
No. 10,447.
Succession of Marie Louise Cass.
Deficiencies in the transcript, not referred to in the certificate of the clerk, which is full and complete, furnish no ground for dismissal of appeal, unless caused by the fault of appellant or his counsel, which is not established in this case.
Where the tutor and the minors permanently leave the State and acquire a residence in another State, the tutorship is ended. In such a case the courts of this State have no jurisdiction of a suit to remove the tutor.
The domicil of the minors being that of the tutor, the jurisdiction in which the domicil is situated is charged with the appointment of the guardian and tutor.
If the minors own property in the State, in the absence of a guardian appointed at their domicil, the courts of this State have jurisdiction to appoint a tutor to administer said property.
Where the minors reside and have their domicil in the State, the permanent absence of the tutor ipso facto vacates the tutorship, and it is not necessary to bring a suit to remove him from the tutorship. The judge can immediately appoint a tutor in his stead.
APPEAL from the Civil District Oourt, Parish of Orleans. J.
W. 8. Benedict for the Under Tutor, Appellant.
John Bassich, Jr., for the Tutor, Appellee:
Wliero a person removed with his minor children from the State oí Louisiana to Chicago, Illinois, with the intention o'f acquiring a domicil there for himself and them, followed by a residence in said latter State from June —, 1885, to June H, 1889 (nearly five years), and he so continues to reside; and the said person, being the father and natural tutor, has registered and voted in said State of Illinois, and he was employed there during said period, and his children go to and wore registered, during said time, in the public schools at Chicago, Illinois. Held animo et facto, ho is domiciled at and a citizen of Illinois, and the courts of Louisiana are divested of jurisdiction over him and his minor children. Rev. C. C,, Arts. ,38, 11, 16; Story’s Confl. of Laws, See. 16; 28 An. 213; Board of Health YS. South-worth, 29 An. 253; 32 An. 679; Interdiction of Dmnas, and authorities.
Under the above circumstances a change of the father and natural tutor's domicil operated a change of the minors’ domicil. Rev. C. O., Art. 39.
That a father and natural tutor of his minor children has the absolute right to remove from tlio State with his minor children and thus change his and tlioir domicil from Louisiana to Illinois, without forfeiting the natural tutorship, and by so removing- to divest the jurisdiction of the Louisiana courts and vest the Illinois courts with same is no longer an open question. 1 An. 523; Bailey vs. Morrison, 12 An. 686; 11 An. 566; 2 Roh. 119; 29 An. 531, 535; and 1 Martin O. S. 716; Delacroix vs. Boisblanc; 9 An. 351; N. S. 382.
Whether or not the minors have property at the abandoned domicil (encumbered or unencumbered) to administer, does not affect the right of the natural tutor to acquire a domicil elsewhere with his minor children, and no other tutor can ho appointed by the courts of the last domicil. 3 La. 186, Roland vs. Stephen.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Eenner, J.
The transcript is verified by a full and complete certificate of the clerk. The motion to dismiss is based on alleged deficiencies in the transcript. 1
Such deficiencies do not authorize dismissal of the appeal, at least in advance of submission of case for decision, unless caused by the appellant.
The affidavits filed exonerate the appellant and his counsel from any fault in the premises.
Either party may, on the proper application, complete the record by certiorari.
Motion overruled.