Judge Pierre Adolphe Rost

ID: 3077 ~ Source: Courtesy of The Louisiana Supreme Court. ~ Creator: Andres Molinary

This file appears in: The Final Will of Presiding Judge Francois-Xavier Martin

Associate Justice Pierre Adolphe Rost wrote the opinion for the Louisiana Supreme Court, upholding Judge Martin's olographic will.

This file appears in: The Final Will of Presiding Judge Francois-Xavier Martin

The Final Will of Presiding Judge Francois-Xavier Martin

By Mary Ann Wegmann, The Law Library of Louisiana & University of New Orleans History Department

In June 1847, the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the olographic, or hand written, will of its deceased member Presiding Judge Francois-Xavier Martin, who served on the Court for 31 years until March 19, 1846. Judge Martin “retired unwillingly at the…