Legal Opinion
Succession of Morvant
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 15, 1893No. 11,177PublishedCited by 7 opinions
APPEAL from the Eightenth District Court, Parish of Lafourche. Guion, Judge Twentieth Judicial District, sitting in place of Caillonet, J., recused.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brbaux, J.
The following document was presented to the District Court, to be probated, as the last will and testament of Jumonville Morvant:
“September 14, 1878.
“Brother and Sister i Give my piec of Lands what i Bout from Miss. O. M. Gillis to Harriet Reese and Frank The boy what i Rase, and also my buggy and all my con and my oxsen and the Cart also dollar my mare and all what i got in the house, i give all that To harriet Reese and Frank Longs they live Brother and Sister i give that to harriet Reese and Frank for they Life times so no law got any…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth ex rel. Mishey v. BrennemanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1829
3Cited by7 opinions
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