Succession of Jones

The succession of Eai'man Jones was opened by his widow, by petition to the Second District Court of New Orleans, filed on the 21st of May, 1856, to be qualified as natural tutrix of the two minor children of said Jones. To this petition was annexed a certificate of the Register of Births and Deaths in and for the city and parish of Orleans, certifying the death of New*398man Jones. About nine months after the widow Jones had qualified as tutrix, and made an inventory, under orders of the court, one David U. Jones, the brother of Rearman Jones, and against whom the widow and tutrix had instituted…