Succession of Williams
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twentieth. Judicial District Court, Parish -of Terrebonne; Philip .H. Gilbert, Judge. In the matter of the Succession of George Williams. Suit by Robert J. Williams and others against George Williams, Jr., and others, for possession of tlieir interest, in the estate of decedent and for partition, in which Mrs. Robert Collins and another intervened, claiming an interest.
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Appeal from Twentieth. Judicial District Court, Parish -of Terrebonne; Philip .H. Gilbert, Judge. In the matter of the Succession of George Williams. Suit by Robert J. Williams and others against George Williams, Jr., and others, for possession of tlieir interest, in the estate of decedent and for partition, in which Mrs. Robert Collins and another intervened, claiming an interest. From a j’udgment'placing the interveners in provisional possession of the interest claimed, the named defendant and the interveners appeal.
1Opinion
On the Merits.
O’NIELL, J.
George Williams died on the 22d of June, 1917.' His wife bad died several years before. They had had three children, namely: (1) George Williams, Jr., who survived his father; (2) Frederick Williams, who had died, leaving a widow and six children, three of them being minors; and (3) Daniel Williams, who had disappeared from his home in New Orleans on the 5th of June, 190S, leaving a wife and two daughters, Mrs. Robert Collins and Mrs. Frederick It. Dubret. Daniel Williams has not been seen nor heard from by any of his relations since he disappeared, and,- although…
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