Succession of Simmons
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; John St. Paul, Judge. In the matter of the succession of James H. Simmons. Proceedings by Kittie S. Simmons against Martha C. Howell, administratrix. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBlancpiard, J.
James H. Simmons died in New Orleans in November, 1900, at the house of his sister, Mrs. Martha C. Howell.
The latter, some six weeks following his death, caused his succession to be opened in the Parish of Orleans, claiming his domicile to be there, and was appointed administratrix.
Simmons died intestate. He left neither ascendants nor descendants. He was married, but his wife was not with him when he died. She was at the home of her brother-in-law in Pickens County, Alabama, where she and her husband had boarded for some time.
She came to New Orleans on learning of his death and attended his…
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