State ex rel. Widow & Heirs of Pearson v. Parish Judge

An application was made to this court, by the relators, on the fourteenth December, 1869,- praying for a writ of prohibition to restrain the parish judge, of the parish of Jefferson from *62proceeding further in the matter of a petition filed in the probate court of that parish by one Zuinglius W. McKay, asking to be appointed dative testamentary executor of John II. Pearson, deceased. The relators set up as ground for this application that the property of the succession had, before this application of McKay was presented, passed into the possession of the heirs by formal decree of the court of…