Legal Opinion

Succession of Stewart

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 1, 1899No. 12,874PublishedCited by 9 opinions

ON APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Ellis, J.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The deceased, late wife of William A. Stewart, departed this life bn the 26th day of July, 1897, leaving a nuncupative will by public act, dated the 13th day of April, 1896.

In this will, she bequeathed five hundred dollars to her sister, a uesident of California; to her husband the enjoyment of her property, •and at his death it was to be equally divided between her two legatees, her sisters-in-law named in the will. She appointed her husband and James Benson, executors.

This will was presented for probate by her surviving husband on the 13th…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Succession of MontegutSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1947
  2. Succession of WilliamsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1913
  3. Succession of ButterworthSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1940
  4. Greenstreet v. GreenstreetIdaho Supreme Court · 1943
  5. Sisters of Charity of Incarnate Word v. EmerySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1919

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