Succession of Downing

In this matter the rela-tors, Jules Albright and John P. Brady, ask for a certiorari to review the proceedings in the matter of the succession of Richard H. Downing, and also for a prohibition to stay all further proceedings in said succession until the further orders of this court.

The facts are these: On the 1st of June, 1908, the relators filed a petition in the civil district court, parish of Orleans, asking for the probate of the will of Robert H. Downing, and that an inventory of the succession be made, and that the "relators be appointed dative testamentary executors, and that their…