Case Name: Mrs. Marie Emelia Thezan, Wife of E. Dumas, et al. vs. Joseph Thezan, Testamentary Executor, et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1876-04
Citations: 28 La. Ann. 442
Docket Number: No. 5993
Parties: Mrs. Marie Emelia Thezan, Wife of E. Dumas, et al. vs. Joseph Thezan, Testamentary Executor, et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 442–444

Head Matter:
No. 5993.
Mrs. Marie Emelia Thezan, Wife of E. Dumas, et al. vs. Joseph Thezan, Testamentary Executor, et al.
'This suit was instituted by a married woman authorized and assisted by her lius- ' band. CiUtion of appeal was served on her. This was sufficient.
•Joseph Thezan. one o£ tho defendants, was cited individually and as testamentary executor and as tutor. This was sufficient. There is no ground for a dismissal of the appeal.
'The plaintiff has instituted this suit against her brother individually, and also as . testamentary executor of their father, as administrator of the succession of their mother, and as tutor of a minor heir.
Third persons, creditors of tho succession of Sidney Thezan, deceased, have appealed from a judgment declaring certain property to belong to the community which existed between said Thezan and his predeceased wife, recognizing tho parties to this suit (two of full age and one a minor) to be the sole legitimate heirs of their mother, maintaining her in the possession and ownership of lior share of said community, ordering the defendant, as testamentary executor of his father, to account to them'for the revenues of said share, and condemning him in said capacity to pay to them (said heirs) a certain sum of money, with interest and mortgage and privilege for the restitution of the paraphernal funds of the said mother.
Tho appellants, having become creditors of the husband after the dissolution of the community by the death of the wife, have no claim upon the share of the wife, but have an interest in seeing that tho property of tho husband, their debtor, is made available for their debts against- it. Any proceedings between the parties to this suit, touching the property of the wife only, can have no effect upon tho rights of said creditors upon tlio property of tho husband. As to them these parties have the right to demand and obtain possession of their mother’s property, but they, tho creditors, can properly contest any claim that the heirs of the mother may urge upon tho property of their father, and, although the judgment in this case may not be conclusivo against thorn, they have a right to have it revised so far as it may, in tlioir opinion, prejudice them'.
It tlio property described in tho petition of plaintiff belonged to tlio community, tho husband as usufructuary was entitled to the revenues, and conseaucntly there is error in making the testamentary executor account to tlio heirs for tho same. As to what property constituted the community, this court has before it the inventory, which must be taken as sufficient for tho purposos of this suit between the heirs. The appellants have tho right to show in tho succession of tlioir debtor what property belongs to it; and, as to tho paraphernal rights allowed in the judgment appoaled from, this court does not think tho evidence sufficient, it not appearing in the record that the wife's claim, if proved, was properly recorded.
from tho Second District Court, parish of Orleans. Tissot, J.
A. Brieugne, for executor and appellee.
J. Duvigneaud, for heirs and appellees.
Charvel cC Dujilantier, Ilornor cD Benedict, and Charles Longue, for third parties, appellants.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
Morgan, J.
Appellees move to dismiss this appeal on the grounds —
Eirst — That appellants show no interest which entitles them to an appeal.
Second — That the proper parties have not been cited.
Eirst — Two of the appellants are judgment creditors of the succession of S. Tliezan, represented by Joseph Thezan, the defendant, and the other two have filed in this court their affidavits showing that they claim to bo creditors of the succession. The judgments appear in the record by virtue of a writ of certiorari.
Second — The suit was instituted by a married woman authorized and assisted by her husband. Citation of appeal was served on her. This was sufficient. 26 An. 541.
Joseph Thezan wás cited individually and as testamentary executor •and tutor. • This was sufficient.
Motion denied.