Succession of Barber

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BlaNchaRD, J.

Thomas Barber died in the Parish of Morehouse, Louisiana, in July, 1899, leaving an estate worth several thousand dollars.

Clara Barber, as widow in community, survived him. A fortnight following his death she presented a petition to the District Judge in which she averred that her husband had died intestate; that the greater portion of the property left by him pertained to the community of acquets and gains which had existed between them; that her husband left no heirs in either the ascending or descending line, nor yet in the collateral…