Succession of Waechter
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Walter B. Sommerville, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Mrs. Joseph Waechter, and the succession of Joseph Waechter. From the judgment, the executors and Arthur J. Waechter and another individually appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
The third and last wife of Joseph Waechter died intestate in 1905, and the surviving husband caused an inventory to be made showing the property of the estate (consisting of the interest of the wife in the community), and thereafter took out letters of administration, filed a provisional and a final account, both of which were homologated, without opposition, and was then discharged. Waechter himself died in November, 1909, leaving an olographic will which reads as follows:
“New Orleans, La., March 24th, ’09.
“This is my last will and testament; I was married…
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