Legal Opinion
Succession of Lissa
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 9, 1940No. 35590PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Justice.'
Sarah Lissa, wife of Louis Spiro, died in New Orleans on April 9, 1938. About two months after the death of Mrs. Spiro, her succession was opened by Mrs. Adele S. Mathe, a daughter, who filed a petition in the Civil District Court, praying that a notary be appointed to search for the will of her deceased mother. About a week after the judge of the District Court granted the order prayed for by Mrs. Mathe, her father, Louis Spiro, without notice to her or his other children, filed a petition in the same proceeding asking for the probate of an olographic will written by Mrs.…
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