Succession of Bertrand
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; John St. Paul, Judge. The final account of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company, as executor of the will of Frederick Olea Bertrand, deceased, having been filed, approved, and homologated,' and the executor discharged, Minnie Drury, individually and as tutrix of her minor children, appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtNicholls, J.
Frederick O. Bertrand died in Virginia in the early part of January, 1907, leaving a widow and three minor children. He left an olographic will, dated April 4, 1907, in which he appointed the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company, of New Orleans, his testamentary executor, with seisin and without bond.
The will was on application of that bank probated, and the bank qualified as testamentary executor under it. As such it proceeded to administer the succession.
An inventory of the succession was made on the 29th of April, 1907. On the 15th of July, 1907, the executor filed his final account of…
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