Legal Opinion

Watson v. Bondurant

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 15, 1878No. 6564PublishedCited by 16 opinions

APPEAL from the Thirteenth Judicial District Court. Hough, J.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marr, J.

Walter E. Bondurant died at his domicile at Natchez, Mississippi, in June, 1874, leaving a will by which he devised his entire estate to his wife, Mrs. Ella F. Bondurant, whom he appointed sole executrix.

The will was admitted to probate in the proper court, at Natchez, on the sixteenth June; but it does not appear whether there was any property or estate in Mississippi to be administered ; nor that the executrix qualified there.

On the nineteenth Juno Mrs. Bondurant presented a petition to the parish judge of Tensas parish, Louisiana, with a…

2Cited by16 opinions

  1. Bondurant v. WatsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
  2. Ridings v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  3. Murff v. RatcliffLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1932
  4. City of Shreveport v. Urban Land Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1935
  5. Life Ins. Co. of Virginia v. NolanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1935

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