Succession of Lyons

Mrs. Pry, mother of the deceased, instituted the proceeding now before us to compel the payment to her of alimony, on the ground that'she was in destitute circumstances.

Mrs. Lyons, the widow in community, and natural tutrix, opposed this claim of the grandmother, on the ground that the succession, though inventoried at nearly two hundred thousand dollars, owed debts exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and that, after the settlement and division of the community, the residue coming to the children, from whom the grandmother thus claimed support, would barely suffice to support…