Succession of Greenlaw
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; H. C. Cage, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Mrs. Kate McCan Greenlaw, wherein Edward R. Greenlaw, her surviving husband, as executor, filed account, and proposed to close the succession by paying debts, reserving to himself a special legacy of $25,000, and by dividing the remainder of the estate equally between himself and the mother of his deceased wife.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
Mrs. Nate McCan Greenlaw, whose succession is in dispute, was survived by her husband, Edward R. Greenlaw, her mother, Mrs. Mary G. Mason, two brothers, David C. and Charles P. McCan. and a sister, Mrs. Pannie McCan Cobb. David C. McCan died a few months after Mrs. Greenlaw’s death, and his succession is represented in this suit by an administrator, the Whitney-Central Trust & Savings Bank.
Mrs. Greenlaw teft a will, in which she bequeathed $25,000 to her husband and appointed him executor. ’The will contains no other bequest.
Although the exact value of the estate is not shown in the record,…
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