Succession of McDonogh
Supreme Court of Louisiana
— On the Petition oe Moses Pox. APPEAL from the Second District Court of New Orleans, — May it please the Court: If bold assertions, unsupported by any authority of law or fact; if unbridled abuse and vituperation poured unsparingly upon a modest and humble litigant pleading at the bar of his oountry, and invoking the majesty of its laws in vindication of his rights and honor, have to he accepted as a legitimate substitute for all want of reason and justice in those who so…
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— On the Petition oe Moses Pox. APPEAL from the Second District Court of New Orleans, — May it please the Court: If bold assertions, unsupported by any authority of law or fact; if unbridled abuse and vituperation poured unsparingly upon a modest and humble litigant pleading at the bar of his oountry, and invoking the majesty of its laws in vindication of his rights and honor, have to he accepted as a legitimate substitute for all want of reason and justice in those who so unmercifully assail him; if a tone of overbearing arrogance and of affected conviction is to supersede all necessity of…
1Opinion of the Court
HtiwBin,, J.
On the 26th day of September, 1860, the plaintiff, Moses Fox, filed a petition in the Second District Court of New Orleans, and presented for probate the following instrument, to wit:
“ Oodicil to my last will and testament.
“Be it known that I, John McDonogh, do hereby will and bequeath to my beloved nephew, Moses Fox, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, which is to be paid to him eight years after my death, by the trustees of my estate, in the city of New Orleans. Dated New Orleans, November 1st, 1849.
(Signed) John MoDonogh.”
The plaintiff alleged himself to be the…
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