Succession of Ducloslange

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

King-, J.

Eulalie Ducloslange died in the city of New Orleans, leaving neither ascendants nor descendants, nor legitimate collateral relations. She left, however, a surviving husband, from whom she had not been separated from bed and board. Shortly after her death, her natural brother, Phillip Duclos-lange, presented a petition to the Probate Court, in which he represented himself, his three sisters, and the children of a deceased sister, to be the heirs of Eulalie, and claimed the administration of her succession. Ternoir, the surviving husband,…