Succession of Harris

LAND, Justice.

Oakley B. Harris died in the city of New Orleans March 11, 1928, and appointed the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company executor of his last will and testament.

On May 23, 1929, Leonard A. Howerton: of St. Louis, Mo., intervened in the succession proceedings in the civil distinct court for the parish of Orleans, and prayed for judgment against decedent’s estate in the sum of $2,500 for the price of a diamond and ruby bracelet alleged to have been purchased from intervener by Harris on or about March 15, 1927, and, in the alternative, intervener prayed that the bracelet be returned to…