Bracken v. Perot

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Francis Alvin Perot died intestate in Natchitoches Parish in 1949. His brother, Lynn J. Perot, applied for letters of administration and qualified by taking the oath and giving bond. To a provisional account filed by him as administrator an opposition was filed by Mrs. Jeanne Frances Perot Bracken, only child of the deceased, a non-resident of the State of Louisiana. This opposition was sustained as to all items on the provisional account except those ordering the payment of the costs of administration — that is, the administrator’s fees, court costs, legal advertisement,…