Succession of Thomas
Supreme Court of Louisiana
áPPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Bightor, J. Iu a suit, the application of a party for letters of administration on a succession, the record must show that there is property within the jurisdiction of the Stale and this Court.
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áPPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Bightor, J. Iu a suit, the application of a party for letters of administration on a succession, the record must show that there is property within the jurisdiction of the Stale and this Court. In such a suit, the existence of the property and the value thereof must be apparent in the record, and in an amount equal to, or exceeding $1,000 ; otherwise, the Supreme Court cannot entertain j urisdiction, and the appeal must be dismissed. Art. 81 Const, of 1879 ; 32 An. 1136, U20, 932; 34 An. 585; 33 An. 416; 27 An. 676; 24 An. 94; 22…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Manning, J.
Susan B. Thomas died at Biloxi, Mississippi, in July, 1876. On Aug. 4, 1881, Louis J. Bright of this City applied to the Civil District Court for letters of administration upon her estate, alleging that the deceased was a resident of New Orleans, and had left some property and effects within the jurisdiction of the court, and that her succession had never been opened and administered by her heirs, if any ■she have—that the deceased was indebted to him at the time of her death in the snm of thirty-two hundred dollars (amended afterwards and…
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