Succession of Shaffer
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Eighteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Terrebonne. Gaillouet, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Breaux, J.
This litigation grew out of the application of the executors of the last will and testament of the late William L. Shaffer for the approval of their account showing the assets of the estate; the debts and the dispositions of the various legacies as proposed to be paid by the petitioners.
The deceased left no forced heirs, and there existed no community between him and his wife.
He left three wills, olographic in form. They are dated respectively, February 10, 1894; March 7, 1894, and May 4, 1895.
In the first will he disposed of the greater…
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