Gravillon v. Richard's
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF PROBATES, FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action instituted in the Court of-Probates, for the city and parish of New-Orleans, by Jean Claude Gravil-lon, of the city of New-York, attorney in fact of the syndics of the creditors, and of the curator of the vacant estate of a person calling himself Etienne Richard, whose real name is Ennemond Richard Lioud, a native of France, lately residing and doing business at Annonay, in the…
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF PROBATES, FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action instituted in the Court of-Probates, for the city and parish of New-Orleans, by Jean Claude Gravil-lon, of the city of New-York, attorney in fact of the syndics of the creditors, and of the curator of the vacant estate of a person calling himself Etienne Richard, whose real name is Ennemond Richard Lioud, a native of France, lately residing and doing business at Annonay, in the kingdom of France, but who came to New-Orleans, by the way of New-York, in the beginning of the year 1837, and died. The…
1Opinion of the CourtEustis, J.
On the 22d of June, 1837, a person calling himself Etienne Richard, died in the city of New-Orleans, leaving a will, in which he appointed N. B. Le Breton his executor, and instituted as his universal legatee, Charles Francois David Richard Chamberet, of St. Chamond, department of the Loire, in the kingdom of France. On receiving information of this testamentary disposition, the legatee, by a. declaration at the greffe of the tribunal of the first instance, sitting at Tournon, in the department of L’Ardeche, acknowledged the deceased to have been his brother; that in his life time he had been…
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