Watson v. Lawrence
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Action by Ivy Watson against Frank W. Lawrence, administrator, and Mrs. Athelia A. W. Serbian and another intervene. From the judgment, interveners apply for certiorari, or writ of review.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
This suit involves the possession of notes, aggregating, exclusive of interest, exactly $2,000.
Interveners’ demand was rejected in the district court.
In the Court of Appeal the court decided that there should have been a nonsuit on the intervention.
The ground of the Court of Appeal for the conclusion was that the certificate of marriage was the best evidence of the marriage, and, until it was produced, or its absence explained, the evidence of eyewitnesses to the ceremony, and all other evidence, was secondary and not the best evidence.
*195The interveners alleged that they are the heirs of the…
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