In re Estate of Lewis
Supreme Court of Louisiana
.A.PPEAL from the Parish Court of Iberville. Cole, J. First — A will executed in another State devising property situated in Louisiana must as to that property, whether movable or immovable, be reduced to the disposable portion.
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.A.PPEAL from the Parish Court of Iberville. Cole, J. First — A will executed in another State devising property situated in Louisiana must as to that property, whether movable or immovable, be reduced to the disposable portion. C. C. 1493,1502,1504 ; R. S. of' 1870, sec. 3677 ; C. C. 1220 ; 17 A.. 15 ; 23 A. 22. Second — The powers of administrators appointed in different States extend only to the limits of the sovereigns creating them, and that neither allows the other to intermeddle with any assets within their respective jurisdictions. 17 An. 16 ; Burbank vs. Payne & Co., 19' An. 42 ; 8…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
DeBlanc, J.
Mrs. Frances Parke Lewis, the wife of E. G. W. Butler, died in the State of Mississippi, leaving as her legal heirs two of her own children — Lawrence L. and Cora, and the issue of the marriage of a deceased daughter with George Williamson.
In her last will, which was twice probated, here and in Mississippi, she declared — and this stands uncontradicted — that she was a citizen and resident of the last mentioned State, named — as her universal legatees — her daughter Cora, the widow of W. B. Turnbull and the sons of said widow, and designated…
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