Legal Opinion

Succession of Yeates

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 22, 1948No. 38264PublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FOURNET, Justice;

The five sisters of E. Clifton Yeates— Mrs. Effie McClellan, Mrs. Ella Rowe, Mrs. Beatrice Martin, Mrs. Nellie Barry, and Mrs. Emma Todhunter — are appealing from a judgment rejecting their demand that a deed executed by their late mother, Mrs. S. A. (Alice) Yeates, on June 25, 1941, conveying to him certain improved property in Cotton Valley, Louisiana, be set aside, while the last two named sisters are also appealing from a judgment ordering the probate, over their opposition, of their late mother’s will, dated January 31, 1942. The two proceedings having been consolidated…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Toca v. RojasSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1921
  2. Bates v. BlitzSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1944
  3. Perez v. MerauxSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1942
  4. King v. AtkinsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1881
  5. Rubenstein v. FilesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1920

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. Succession of LyonsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1984
  2. Melancon v. Texas CompanySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
  3. Fried v. BradleySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1951
  4. Monk v. MonkSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1962
  5. Olivier's Minor Children v. OlivierSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1949

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