Hollingshead v. Sturgis

Mary Kelper, wife of the defendant, Louis Sturgis, died without issue, leaving considerable property in the parish of East Feliciana, and leaving her olographic will made in 1851, which was duly admitted to prohate and ordered to he executed.

In this will, after making certain special legacies, she devised tho mass of her estate to John E. Sturgis, the son of her husband, by a former marriage, reserving, however, to the latter the usufruct, use *451and habitation thereof during his life time and making him executor' of the will. . . ' ■'.

The plaintiff, E. Hollingshead, the mother and forced heir…