Succession of Davis

BEER, Judge.

Laura Davis, widow of Anthony J. Adams, died at her home in New Orleans on April 17, 1950. On April 21, 1950, her half sister, Mary Jones, widow of Joseph Camp, filed a petition in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, seeking an order authorizing a search for decedent’s last will. The order was signed on the same date.

On September 13, 1950, Victoria Adams Haynes, of Chicago, Illinois, through her attorney, Alcide J. Weysham, petitioned the Civil District Court seeking to have registered and executed an alleged last will and testament of the decedent, Laura Davis…