Legal Opinion
Succession of Bey
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided July 1, 1895No. 11,715PublishedCited by 10 opinions
PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Rightor, J.
1Opinion of the Court
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
On June 7, 1893, one Henry Shipman presented a petition to the Civil District Court, in which he averred that Elizabeth Bey had died in the parish of Orleans, leaving a nuncupa-tive will by public act, in which he was appointed testamentary ex.ecutor, and praying that the said will be probated and ordered to be executed.
Prior to this action the court, at the instance of the public administrator of the parish of Orleans, had appointed Frank Zengel attorney of the absent heirs of Elizabeth Bey, upon the assumption that…
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