Succession of Haley
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Ellis, J. Succession of Hossa, 37 An. 841. Succession of Yollmer, 40 An. 594. ■“ Succession of Forstall,” 25 An. 430, and “ The matter of the Tutorship of Ellen Wilson Upton,” 16 An. 175; to Art. 256 (274) of the Civil Code; to Succession of Gorrison, 15 An. 27; Succession of Hawkins, 35 An. 591; Nugent vs. Stark, 34 An. 631, and “In re Fazende & Seixas praying for a monition,” 35 An. 1145.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
Mrs. Helen C. Taite, widow of Cornelius C. Haley, died in June, 1895, leaving a last will and testament.
In this will the testatrix, after stating that “ she had neither *711ascendants nor descendants, but that she had an adopted child named Charles Mandeville Taite, aged about eight years,” and after making special legacies, declared “that she gave and bequeathed to her said adopted child the balance or remainder of all her estate of whatever nature or description, constituting him her sole and only universal legatee, and appointed Anatole…
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