Legal Opinion

Succession of Williams

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 6, 1930No. 28758PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtLane, J.

E. F. Williams died in tbe parish of Bienville in January, 1924, without ascendants or descendants, and left in that parish a small estate, consisting of personal and real property.

Believing that her husband had died intestate, Mrs. Mary A. Williams was recognized as his surviving widow in community and sole heir, accepted his succession unconditionally, and was sent into possession.

Thereafter Mrs. Lillian Williams Stone, a niece of decedent, presented to the lower court a last will and testament of E. F. Williams, of date November 17,1906, and prayed that it be probated and executed.

Mrs.…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Succession of LedbetterSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1920
  2. Succession of HallSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1917
  3. Succession of HeftSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1927
  4. In re Billis' WillSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1908
  5. Succession of HunterSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1925

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Succession of RougonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1953
  2. Succession of FeitelSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1933
  3. Succession of BlossomSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1940
  4. Succession of ThilborgerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1958
  5. Brown Land & Royalty Co., Inc. v. GreenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1952

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