Michel v. Beale

The object of this suit on the part of the plaintiff was to have her rights under the will of her deceased husband, John P. Michel, established *353contradictorily with the attorney for the absent heirs, and with the legatees named in the will. Her husband died in February, 1854, leaving a largo estate real and personal, all of which belonged to the community of acquets and gains, which had existed between his wife and himself.

The petitioner, who is the executrix of her husband’s will, prays first to be recognised as the owner of one undivided half of all the property, as belonging ,to the…