Balot y Ripoll v. Moriña

The petitioner represents, that she and her sister Catalina Ripoll are the only heirs of Sebastian Ripoll, their brother, who died in New Orleans, on or about the 10th of April, 1836. That the deceased was possessed of a very large estate, composed of real and personal property and slaves, which were inventoried after his death, amounting to a very large sum. That as the sisters of the late Sebastian Ripoll, otherwise known by the name of Francisco Ballesta, they are entitled to inherit from him, each the undivided half of his entire succession ; but that it appears, that the said Sebastian,…