Legal Opinion
Succession of May
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 16, 1903No. 14,601PublishedCited by 7 opinions
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; John St. Paul, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Eugene May. From a judgment establishing the will, the proponents of nullity appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The following will of the de cujus is said to contain a substitution, and to be null:
“New Orleans, April 9, 1894.
“As I am about to leave the city for a short time, I have concluded in the event of accident to make this my olographic will:
“I appoint without bond as my executors *995my faithful friends, Geo. W. Booth, Thos. McC. Hyman, and Isodore S. Richards.
“I bequeath to my daughter, Mattie May, whose mother was my first wife — Victoria N. Richards — and to my present wife: Mattie L. Cunningham, all of which I die possessed; they to share alike, i. e., one half to each, except I want enough…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Gueydan v. MontagneSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1902
- Succession of MeunierSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1899
- Harper v. StanbroughSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1847
3Cited by7 opinions
- Succession of ProvostSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1938
- Succession of MartinLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1972
- Picard v. Succession of PicardSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1934
- Succession of ShowsLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1964
- Swart v. LaneSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1926
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