Legal Opinion

Succession of Allen

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided April 12, 1897No. 12,331PublishedCited by 9 opinions

APPEAL from the Eighteenth Judicial District Oourt for the Parish of Lafourche. Caillouet, J.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

This litigation is supplementary to and grows out of a previous opinion of this court, which was rendered in a suit of same title as this, and which is reported in 48 An. 1036; and to which we refer for a complete statement of the issues involved and the conclusions at which we arrived, the chief purpose and object thereof being to determine the scope and meaning of the will of the deceased.

' The following extract from our opinion in that case will illustrate, to a certain extent, the scope of the‘present controversy, namely:

“The succession…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. United States v. Realty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1896

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Allen v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1899
  2. In Re Ph&338nix Building Homestead Ass'nSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1943
  3. Woodward, Wight & Co. v. National Box Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
  4. Abshire v. LegeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1913
  5. Succession of SpykerLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1935

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