Succession of Drysdale
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Thomas C. W. Ellis, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Julia P. Drysdale. From a decree probating the will, her legal heirs, Mary A. Pike and John T. Pike, appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
NICHOLLS, J.
Mrs. Julia P. Drysdale died in New Orleans on August 16, 1905. It is conceded that this city was her domicile. All of her property, real and personal, was situated there with the exception of a burial lot in Ontario, Canada. She had no forced heirs. Her legal heirs were her sister, Mary Ann (Mollie) Pike and her brother, John Thomas Pike, both residents of New Orleans. She was supposed to have died intestate.
On August 21, 1905, these legal heirs filed in the civil district court a petition in which they alleged the death in New Orleans of Mrs. Drysdale; that…
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