Legal Opinion
Succession of Drysdale
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 29, 1912No. 19,059PublishedCited by 12 opinions
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E. K. Skinner, Judge. Iu the matter of the succession of Andrew Drysdale. Petition by Mrs. Marcella Drys-dale Ennis and others against the executors of the .succession of Mrs. Julia P. Drysdale and another. From a judgment for the petitioners, an appeal is taken.
1Opinion of the Court
LAND, ,T.
Andrew Drysdale, a resident of the city of New Orleans, died in Canada, iu August, 1896, leaving a surviving wife, Mrs. Julia Pike Drysdale, and children of a prior marriage.
Decedent left a last will in notarial form, of date October 16, 1893, which was duly probated. The testament contains the following declarations and dispositions:
“My name is Andrew Drysdale, I am seventy three years old, I was married twice, by my first marriage with Mary Cunly, I had four children, James Drysdale, Marcella Drysdale, wife of William Ennis, Jeannette Drysdale, wife of Thomas P. Carpenter, and John…
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