Case Name: Succession of Celia Waterer-Opposition of E. K. Brumfield to final account of Administrator
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1873-03
Citations: 25 La. Ann. 210
Docket Number: No. 3804
Parties: Succession of Celia Waterer—Opposition of E. K. Brumfield to final account of Administrator.
Judges: Justices concurring: Ludeling, Taliaferro, Howell, Morgan.
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 210–212

Head Matter:
No. 3804.
Succession of Celia Waterer—Opposition of E. K. Brumfield to final account of Administrator.
Where the transcript is certified lo be “atrae oop.y of all the proceedings had and of all the testimony taken on tlie trial,” it is sufficient.
Boffire the passage of the aot of March 18, 1852, by which the community of acquets was extended, in favor of non-resident married persons, to property in this State thereafter? acquired, no such community existed. The property acquired after their residence here, alone fell into the partnership.
Where the surviving husband, administrator of his wife’s estate, brought with him to this State, as his personal property, more stock of every kind than he had at the decease of bis wife:
Held_That, at the dissolution of the community, he has the right to take in kind, if still existing, what he brought in marriage, and from the cattle remaining a number of head, equal to that brought by him in marriago.
APPEAL from the Parish Court, parish of Washington. Slocum, J.
1. & J. Filis, for administrator and appellee. John Wadsworth, fcr appellants.
Justices concurring: Ludeling, Taliaferro, Howell, Morgan.

Opinion:
Taliaferro, J.
The appellee moves to dismiss this appeal.
First — Because the certificate is defective in not reciting that the-transcript contains "all the documents filed in the suit,'' and that it contains "all the testimony adduced."
Second — That the transcript is signed by the deputy clerk.
Third, — That the record of appeal was not brought up within tlieproper time after the order for a certiorari was issued.
Fourth — That appellant is without interest in the suit.
The transcript is certified to be "a true copy of all the proceedings had and of all the testimony taken on the trial," etc. This suffices. 12 La. 476 ; 9 An. 95. The other grounds are without force. Motion overruled.