Succession of Henry
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Livingston; Clay Elliott, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Charles W. Henry. Mrs. Henry, the widow of the decedent, was appointed dative executrix, and from an order denying petition to place her in possession of the property, Mrs. Henry and the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
*204Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
Upon April 21, 1904, Harley A. W. Howcott was appointed dative testamentary executor of the decedent, and upon April 24th Mrs. Sallie E. Houston filed a petition alleging that she was the widow of the decedent and praying that the appointment so made be annulled, as having been obtained by fraud, and this was followed on April 29th by an opposition to said appointment, and on May 14th by an appeal from the order making the same. In the case thus presented, this court, in January of this year, found that neither the will nor any copy thereof had been filed in…
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- Succession of HenrySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
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