Nelson v. Bridge

GILL, Associate Justice.

This was an action of trespass to try title brought by W. W. Melson, the plaintiff in error, to recover of the defendants in error the lands described in the petition. The answer was not guilty. Upon a trial to the court judgment was rendered for defendants, the trial court holding that the administration proceedings through which plaintiff deraigned his title was void. The facts are as follows:

In 1881 Isaac Bridge died testate in the city of Mew Orleans, Louisiana. In February of that year his will was duly admitted to probate in the court of that parish having…