Hecker v. Brown

Citations

• 104 La. 524

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>In a suit to compel the defendant to accept the title offered to her by one who was bound to transfer to her a good title, it appearing that the proceedings which led to sales of minor's property were not conducted in accordance with the requirements of law, in that the proceedings of a family meeting held in the minors’ interest were never homologated, and, in addition, that an attempt was made cm parte to annul proceedings of a date anterior to the holding of the family meeting that pioved of no avail.</p> <p>Held: That the order looking to the homologation of the proceedings of the family meeting and to authorize the sale, not having been signed, left tho title in such a state that a third person could not he compelled to accept It when tendered. The order homologating a family meeting is not interlocutory and is not effective without a judgment of the court. It is a final judgment decreeing the disposition to be made of minors’ property and must be signed, particularly when it includes an additional order directing that a sale to effect a partition be made.</p>