Legal Opinion
Succession of Canton
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 29, 1918No. 22539PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Porter Parker, Judge. Petition by the executor of Mrs. Leocadie de Lesseps Canton, deceased, for interpretation of certain parts of her will, opposed by Ruth Edwina Baldwin, legatee. From the trial court’s construction of the will, the legatee appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
The executor filed a petition requesting the trial court to interpret two paragraphs of the last will of the decedent, which having been done, the question of the correctness of the interpretation placed upon one of them has been brought up for review by the appeal of the legatee therein named. The paragraph in question reads as follows:
“I hereby leave to Ruth Edwina Baldwin eleven thousand dollars — $11,000.00—represent-*115ed by bonds of Louisiana fours and bonds of New Orleans City Railway and Light Co., and will be found in a sealed envelope bearing…
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