Case Name: In the Matter of Amelia & Virginia Seghers
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1855-06
Citations: 10 La. Ann. 423
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Amelia & Virginia Seghers.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 423–423

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Amelia & Virginia Seghers.
In proceedings to emancipate a minor under the Statute of 184T, when the family meeting has not given a satisfactory detail of the causes which make the emancipation necessary or desirable, and where it does not state the situation, nature and amount of the minors property, it is discretionary with the District Judge to refuse its homologation,
from the District Court of the parish of West Baton Rouge.
Jitlien Seghers, for the applicant..
An application to put this case on the summary docket was refused.

Opinion:
Slidell, C. J.
This is an appeal from the refusal of the District Judge to homologate the proceedings of a family meeting, and to decree the emancipation of the minors. The reasons for his refusal are fully and forcibly stated by the District Judge, and his conclusion meets our concurrence. We cannot recognize the doctrine that in a proceeding under the Statute of 1847, where the family meeting has not given a Satisfactory detail of the causes which make the emancipation necessary or desirable, and where the Judge is left wholly uninformed as to the situation, nature and amount of the minor's property, he is to be considered a mere automaton, to sign an homologation, stripped of any judicial discretion, and excluded from enquiring whether according to the evidence before him and his conscientious conviction, the welfare of the minor will be proa oted by the decree.
Judgment affirmed, costs to be paid by appellant.