Succession of Palmer
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Porter Parker, Judge. Succession of Rev. Magin Palmer on the opposition of Mrs. Marie Hess to the account of the testamentary executor. From the executor’s refusal to allow her claim, the opponent appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The decedent, a Catholic priest, died at the age of 71, from what the attending physician calls chalky gout or rheumatism deformant — one of those diseases that present poor humanity in its most pitiable state. Eor more than four years he had been practically bedridden, and for more than one year entirely so, unable to attend to himself at all, having to be raised and turned in bed, and fed with a spoon or a tube, “sloughing all over on account of the breaking or bursting of the chalky deposits, and in a gangrenous condition,” his whole body disgusting to sight and smell from the sores and…
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