Delpit v. Canal Bank & Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; W. S. Rownd, Judge. Ernest Delpit and others caused the succession of Victoria White Mingo to be opened, and obtained a judgment that they be put in possession as the heirs at law, and ruled the German American Branch of the Canal Louisiana Bank & Trust Company to show cause why it should not pay over an amount on deposit, and decedent’s surviving husband, Smiley Mingo, intervened.
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Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; W. S. Rownd, Judge. Ernest Delpit and others caused the succession of Victoria White Mingo to be opened, and obtained a judgment that they be put in possession as the heirs at law, and ruled the German American Branch of the Canal Louisiana Bank & Trust Company to show cause why it should not pay over an amount on deposit, and decedent’s surviving husband, Smiley Mingo, intervened. Judgment for intervener, and the heirs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
Victoria White Mingo, wife of Smiley Mingo, died, without issue, in the parish of Tangipahoa, in July, 1915, leaving certain sums of money, approximating $800, on deposit in two of the banks of New Orleans, and shortly thereafter Ernest Delpit and others (whom we shall call plaintiffs), appearing as her brothers and sisters, caused her succession to be opened and obtained a judgment ordering that they be put in possession, as her heirs at law, of such property and money as she had acquired pri- or to the month of November, 1909, and particularly of the money…
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