Welch v. Jacobsmeyer

MOJSE, Justice.

This appeal taken by the plaintiffs presents but one issue: Were the exceptions of no right and no cause of action properly sustained as the basis for dismissal of plaintiffs’ suit?

This litigation is the outgrowth of a succession under administration in the Parish of Tangipahoa, where Mrs. Florence Ellen Sammy, widow of Charles D. Summy, the deceased, was domiciled. She left a will in olographic form in which, after making a special bequest to one of the defendants, she bequeathed the remainder of her estate to the other defendant, Dr. J. Albert Jacobsmeyer, the husband of a…