Succession of Lacosst
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Porter Parker, Judge. In the matter of the succession of Eugene Lacosst. Action by Mrs. Jeanne Lepine against Emile Pomes, testamentary executor, and others. Erom a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
The decedent left an estate valued at over $187,000, and a last will whereby he bequeathed to his mother $1,000 and the usufruct, during her life, of the property No. 937 St. Louis street, and to different individuals and public institutions sums aggregating, say, $17,000, and other property, movable and immovable, and whereby he appointed Mr. Emile Pomes his executor, after which he made the following dispositions (adopting the translation from the French, in which language the will is written, furnished by the counsel) to wit:
“I want that, after all these…
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