Howell v. Kretz

Mamie Gray, wife of Joshua Howell, died in the city of New Orleans, on September 8, 1926, leaving an estate consisting of a lot of ground in the city of Baton Rouge, which she had acquired from James D. Brown, on March 24, 1903.

On December 9, 1926, Belle Kretz, a natural child of Mamie Gray, claiming to *455be her sole heir, petitioned the Nineteenth judicial district court in the parish of East Baton Rouge, to be recognized as such and to be placed in possession of the estate. She set out in her petition that while the deed to the property showed that it had been purchased by Mamie Gray, as a…