The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1905-11-04
MRS. DAUpHIN'S WILL PROBATED
Sister lnherits all Her PrOperty-Sto-
ry Of the Litigation in Which rlrs.
Dauphin Was Successful Value of
the Estate Not Yet Known.

New Orleans, Nov. 3.-The will of the
late Mrs. Rosa LaBranche Dauphin was
admitted to probate today in the civil
district court. BY strange coincl-
dence it fell to Division A in the allot-
ment at noon, which division is presided
oyer by the senior judge of the court,
Hon. T. C. w. Ellis, before whom all of
the proceeding in the several branches
of the celebrated litigation over the es-
tate of the late M. A. Dauphin, de-
ceased husband of Mrs. Rosa LaBranche
Dauphin. The litigation is now cause
celebre in the law history of the State,
and it Will be recalled that relatives of
Mr.. Dauphin, the Chopin branch, at
tackled the will and sought to recover
from Mrs. Dauphin share of the large
estate left by her husband, who was the
president of the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany. Messrs. Clegg G. Quintero, who
represented Mrs. Dauphin throughout
the entire long struggle in the courts,
fought assiduously and successfully,
and when the matter finally was decided
in the State Supreme Court, Mrs. Dau-
phin was victorious, after long and
weary legal battle.
1t was charged by the Chopin branch
of the relatives of Mr.. Dauphin that
Mrs. Dauphin had not given full and
complete inventory of the belongings of
his estate-that she withheld from the
inventory a number Of stocks, bonds
and other securities, amounting to
large sum of money. 1t was demanded
that the inventory submitted by her be
traversed and new inventory taken
whereby the plaintiffs sought to recover
a good portion of the estate which they
laid claim to.
Mrs. Dauphin removed all of the
movable portion of the estate from the
jurisdiction of the local courts, leaving
only one piece of property which was
seized and sold under a Judgment of
court. When the court officers visited
the house for the purpose of seizing it,
together with its contents, they found it
locked. They broke in and found that
all of the contents had been removed.
Mrs. Dauphin absented herself from the
city, going to New York and subse-
quently to Europe. This made it i'm
possible for the court to secure service
on her, and as she had no property
within the jurisdiction of the cou TT, aud
the matter being purely civil one, it
was at a standstill for quite a while.
Mrs. Dauphin died a short time ago in
a hotel in Paris, and the remains were
brought back to New Orleans for inter-
ment.
The will which Messrs. Clegg & Quin-
tero had probated today reads as fol-
lows:
Waveland, Miss, May seventh, nine
teen hundred and two.-While in the
possession of sound mind 1 make this
my Geographic will and last testament,
hereby revoking any and all wills by me
made.
I give and bequeath to my sister Oc-
tavie LaBranche all of the property,
real or personal, rights and credits of
which l may die possessed.
l appoint my sister, Octavie La
Branche, executrix of this, my last, will,
hereby giving her full seizen and de-
tainer of my entire estate and expressly
dispense my executrix from taking an
inventory or giving any bond.
This paper is entirely written, dated
and signed by my own hand, at Wave
land, Miss, this seventh day Of May,
nineteen hundred and two.
ROSA LABRANCHE DAUPHIN.
The value of the estate is not yet
known.