Case Name: Succession of Jean Baptiste Landry and M. Trahan, his wife, Dorcino Landry, and als v. Eugene Peray, Tutor, for a Partition
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1873-03
Citations: 25 La. Ann. 183
Docket Number: 4492
Parties: Succession of Jean Baptiste Landry and M. Trahan, his wife, Dorcino Landry, and als v. Eugene Peray, Tutor, for a Partition.
Judges: Justices concurring: Ludeliug, Taliaferro, Howell, Wyly, Morgan.
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 183–183

Head Matter:
4492.
Succession of Jean Baptiste Landry and M. Trahan, his wife, Dorcino Landry, and als v. Eugene Peray, Tutor, for a Partition.
"Where a note for a certain sum of money was found in the success on o: the father of the maker’s wife, and was alleged to have been given in acknowledgment of an avancement dhoirie to said wife, who subsequently died, leaving minors for her heirs;
Held — That said note being given in the individual name of the maker must be considered as his individual deb*-, and -s not subject to eolation on the part of the minors in the sue* cession of their grandfather, and that, even admitting said note to have been an acknowledgment of indebtedness by the drawer in. the name of his children, a tutor has no right to make such an acknowledgment.
APPEAL from the Parish Court, parish of Assumption. A. P. Lawve, judge ad hoe, in place of the parisn judge, recusing himself.
JR. IF. Sims, for appellee. Niehols & False, IJi/ram H. Carver, for appellants.
Justices concurring: Ludeliug, Taliaferro, Howell, Wyly, Morgan.

Opinion:
Morgan. J.
The only question in this case is whether a note for $8375 06, found in the succession of Jean Baptiste Landry, dated seventeenth September, 1861, and signed by Eugene Peray, is tobe colated as an "avancement d'hoirie" to the maker's wife during her life time, or whether it is an individual debt of the maker.
Mrs. Peray was the daughter of J. B. Landry. She died before her father, leaving minor children. Her father was in the habit of making advances to Lis children in anticipation of their rights in his succession. The note which it is alleged is subject to eolation was given in the individual name of Peray, and must be considered as his individual debt. It is not signed by him as tutor to his children, and if it had been it would not have been binding upon his children. It was not an acknowledgment of indebtedness on the part of the children. The tutor has no right to make such an acknowledgment.
Admitting that the money which is represented by the note was given by Landry to his daughter, and was a debt due by her to him, when her father, after her death, took her husband's note for the debt, he novated it by taking another obligee therefor. The note forms a part of his succession, but it is not an obligation which the mother's children are responsible for.
Judgment affirmed.