Tournoir v. Tournoir
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF POINT COUPEE. This is an action instituted by Jean B. Tournoir, the ejecutor and universal legatee of his brother, Joseph Tour-noir, deceased, against the defendants, who are collateral relations of the testator, to be quieted and confirmed in his possession and title to the estate of his brother, under his last will and testament. The testator made two wills.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF POINT COUPEE. This is an action instituted by Jean B. Tournoir, the ejecutor and universal legatee of his brother, Joseph Tour-noir, deceased, against the defendants, who are collateral relations of the testator, to be quieted and confirmed in his possession and title to the estate of his brother, under his last will and testament. The testator made two wills. In the last one, under private signature, dated the 6th March, 1836, he constituted the plaintiff his executor, and made him his instituted heir and universal legatee.…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The facts of the case are these : The plaintiff states, that -on the 5th of March, 1836, his brother, J. Tourhoir, made a *22last will and testament, instituting him his universal legatee, and shortly after died ; that afterwards some of the nephews and nieces of the plaintiff and the deceased, urged that the latter had made a will in. the year 1831, by which, after a considerable legacy to Fanny Richér, he directed his estate to be divided between his heirs at law, viz : his brothers and sisters, and their children. He prayed that the second will be declared to have revoked the first, and…
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