Succession of Barry

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

This record presents a controversy over the appointment of a legal representative to the succession of Thomas Barry, deceased, between the public administrator and Mary Barry, as the surviving widow..

Thomas Barry departed this life, intestate, in the city of New Orleans, on the 10th of July, 1894, and soon afterward the public administrator presented a petition to the court praying to be appointed administrator — alleging that the deceased left no heirs and died intestate.

This application was opposed by Mary Barry, on the allegation that she…