Succession of Delano
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany; Thomas M. Burns, Judge. Proceedings for the settlement of the estate of Mrs. S. H. Delano. From a judgment homologating the executor’s account, the residuary legatee appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The decedent left a last will and testament, and property appraised at $40,797.51. The will was probated, and one of the executors nominated by the executrix qualified and administered the succession.
The will contained four special legacies of real estate, one of them to the wife of the executor, and a special legacy of a mortgage note for $6,500, and the testatrix bequeathed the rest of the estate to “Sister Mary Justine Berg, O. S. B., and at present Mother Prioress,” with the full understanding that she was to finish and furnish St. Seholastica Chapel as the decedent intended to do, to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Succession of KelloggSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1899
- Young v. CourtneySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1858
- Anderson's Executors v. Anderson's HeirsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1836
3Cited by1 opinion
- Hunt v. HillSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1915