Legal Opinion

Succession of Erwin

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 6, 1930No. 29946PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.

This is an appeal by two creditors from a judgment which rejected their opposition to a final account filed by the administratrix.

The question presented is whether the said creditors are entitled to be paid the balance of the proceeds or avails of life insurance policies in preference to the legal heirs of the deceased insured, to whom the administratrix in her final account proposed to distribute the said, insurance money.

William L. Erwin died intestate in the parish of Iberville June 21, 1928, leaving no widow and no descendants or ascendants, but was survived by two paternal uncles and two…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Succession of Le BlancSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1917
  2. Succession of AronsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
  3. Sabine Canal Co. v. Crowley Trust & Savings BankSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1927
  4. Young v. Teutonia Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1914
  5. Succession of ClementSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1919

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Newman v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1935
  2. Nulsen v. HerndonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1933
  3. Dorsey v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1933
  4. Succession of DumestreSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1932
  5. Foote v. Sun Life Assur. Co. of CanadaLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1937

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