Succession of Fleming

Mary Duffy, wife of Thomas Fleming, died intestate in *727New Orleans, on the 9th September, 1865, leaving neither descendant nor ascendant. Her surviving husband, Thomas Fleming, on the 11th, applied for tho administration, and on the 14th, his demand was opposed by Catherine Harrigan, alleging that the deceased left no issue, and that, being his sister and heir, she had a bettei right to the administration.

On the 26th of same month, Fleming applied to discontinue his demand for letters, and ashing to be put in possession of the whole property, as survivor in community and usufructuary of the…