Legal Opinion
Succession of Burns
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 2, 1942No. 36391PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FOURNET, Justice.
This case is before us on an appeal from a judgment dismissing the oppositions filed by the widow of the late A. Sidney Burns and certain ordinary creditors of his estate to the first and final account of the testamentary executor of the succession.
A. Sidney Burns died in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on March 16, 1938, leaving an olographic will dated June 28, 1937, in which he bequeathed to his son, A. Sidney Burns, Jr., issue of his first marriage, to Linnie Mai Locke (hereinafter referred to as the claimant), the disposable portion of his estate, and named S. M. DeBakey as his…
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