Case Name: Succession of GLANCEY
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1905-05-22
Citations: 114 La. 1051
Docket Number: No. 15,436
Parties: Succession of GLANCEY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 1051–1051

Head Matter:
(38 South. 826.)
No. 15,436.
Succession of GLANCEY.
(May 22, 1905.)
APPEAL — JURISDICTIONAL AMOUNT — COMMUNITY PROPERTY — BOND BY WIDOW.
1. Where the jurisdiction of this court depends solely on the amount in dispute, an appeal involving $310 will be dismissed.
_ 2. A widow in community is not obliged to. give bond as usufructuary of community property inherited by her children, unless so required by the last will of her husband.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; John St. Paul, Judge.
In the matter of the succession of Owen Glancey. Prom two judgments, Thomas Glancey and Owen Glancey appeal.
Appeal from one judgment dismissed, and from the other judgment affirmed.
See ante, p. 767, 38 South. 554.
Theodore Cotonio, for appellant. McCloskey & Benedict, for appellee.
Rehearing denied June 19, 1905.

Opinion:
MONROE, J.
Thomas Glancey and Owen Glancey, Jr., appeal from two judgments— the one making absolute a rule taken by their mother, and ordering the payment to her of $310, proceeds of a policy of insurance covering certain property of which she has the usufruct, and which was destroyed by fire; the other dismissing a rule taken by them to compel their mother, widow in community of Owen Glancey, to give bond as usufructuary of the community property. Of the appeal first mentioned, this court has no jurisdiction. As to the other, the judgment appealed from is correct. Merrick's Rev. Civ.. Code, arts. 560, 916; Rev. St. § 629; Speyrer's Estate v. Thantan, 32 La. Ann. 1257; Succession of Glancey, 108 La. 422, 32 South. 356; Succession of Maguire, 110 La. 282, 34 South. 443.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the appeal from the judgment making absolute the rule taken by Mrs. Margaret Higgins, widow of Owen Glancey, to obtain possession of $310 deposited in the registry of the court, be dismissed, and that the judgment dismissing the rule taken by appellants to compel their mother to give bond as usufructuary be affirmed; the appellants to pay all costs.