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Succession Book 7, Page 127
Tutorship of the minors, Grace & Rufus Phelps

No. 501.

Tutorship of the minors Grace and Rufus Phelps.

Application and Order for Family Meeting; filed Oct. 28, 1913.

	To the Honorable the Fourth Judicial District Court in and for the Parish of
Union, State of Louisiana:

	That petitioner and said minors are co-owners in indivision of an undivided
one-fifty-fourth (1/54) interest in all the property belonging to and composing the
estate of petitioner's great-grand-father, Richard T. Moore, which estate consists
of lands and personal property; that the other portions of, or interests in said
estate are owned by T. R. Wade, Robert Wade, William Waade, Frankie Wade Futch and 
Sallie Wade Hunt, who own each an undivided on-eighteenth (1/18) interest in said
estate; by John R. Hammock, who owns an undivided one-third (1/3) interest in said
estate, and by the five heirs of John P. Moore namely, Allie Moore Robichaux, Augustus
C. Moore, Will Moore, Fannie Moore and Leslie Moore a minor, who own each an undivided
one-fifteenth (1/15) interest in said estate; that a part of said property being real
property, it is necessary  before same can be sold to effect a partition thereof that
a family meeting be called to advise and deliberate whether or not it is to the best
interest of the minors, Grace and Rufus Phelps, that their interest in and to said
property be sold at private sale to effect a partition thereof and to fix the terms of
such sale; that petitioner is unwilling and said minors are unwilling to remain longer
in indivision with their said co-proprietors and desire that a partition be effected
by private sale so that the costs will be as small as possible and in order that said
sale may be effected as expeditiously as possible.

	That the following relatives and friends residing within the radius prescribed
by law are the proper ones to compose the said family meeting to wit: T. R. Wade,
Robert Wade, William Wade, Ed Futch and E. W. Wilson, the first three named being 
maternal uncles of said minors, the fourth being an uncle by marriage and the fifth
a friend of said minors, and petitioner desires that a family meeting be ordered 
convoked in behalf of said minors and that same be composed of the relatives and friends
hereinabove mentioned.

	Wherefore petitioner prays that the court order a family meeting to be called
in behalf of the minors Grace and Rufus Phelps and that said meeting be composed of
T. R. Wade, Robert Wade, William Wade, Ed. Futch and E. W. Wilson; that they be called
to deliberate on the subject matter of this petition, that is, whether or not it is to
the best interest of the said minors that the interest belonging to them be sold at
private sale to effect a partition of all the property belonging to and composing the 
estate of the late Richard T. Moore deceased,; that said family meeting be also ordered
to fix the price and terms of sale of said property or the said minors interest thereon;
and for all other orders and for general relief.

						J. B. Crow
						Attorney for Petitioner

					ORDER.

	Let the family meeting prayed for in the within petition be convened and held
before Emmett J. Lee, Dpeuty [sic] Clerk of court and ex-officio Notary Public in and 
for Union Parish La. for the purposes stated in said petition; said family meeting to
be composed of the relatives and friends mentioned in said petition; and let Levy
Ramsey under-tutor be notified to be in attendance on said meeting.

	Thus done and signed the 28 day of October 1913.

						A. J. Hammons, Clerk of the
						Court Union parish, La.

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