Succession of Crouzeilles

Statement of the Case.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

Francois Crouzeilles died in the city of New Orleans on the 5th day of February, 1899. On the 'Tth of the same month Juste Fontaine, Jr., presented a petition to the Civil District Court *443I'or the parish, in which he averred that Francois Grouzielles had died n that city on the 5th of February, 1899, leaving a last will by public set (a copy of which he annexed to his petition), by which petitioner vas appointed testamentary executor, and that he left neither ascendants, descendants nor other forced heirs. He prayed…