Succession of Land

HAMITER, Justice.

The instant appeal, regarding which a motion to dismiss was heretofore denied (209 La. 135, 24 So.2d 289), is from a judgr ment rendered April 4, 1945, rejecting an application of John R. Land, Jr., to be appointed administrator of the succession of his late father and rescinding an order previously issued for the taking of an inventory.

Justice John R. Land, Sr., whose legal domicile was in Shreveport, died intestate in the City of New Orleans on April 18, 1941. Several months later, specifically on August 13, 1941, his widow, Mrs. Willie Armistead Land, and his two children,…