Succession of Stevens
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred D. King, Judge. Rule by the heirs of H. B. Stevens, Sr., against Thomas Connell, Clerk and ex officio Inheritance Tax Collector. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
[1] Mrs. Stevens died in T899, leaving a succession composed of her share of the property belonging to the community of acquets and gains that had existed between her and her surviving husband, and leaving as her heirs her two children, issue of her marriage, both of whom were majors. As neither her succession nor the community of acquets and gains owed any debt, there was no occasion for any judicial proceedings for the settlement of her succession, and her surviving husband simply continued in possession of all the property of her succession as usufructuary. Her husband died in 1913, and…
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