The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-03-13

In the civil district court, for the
parish of Orleans, attorney n. E.
Humphreys files two petitions for his
client Mrs. Alice L. Won Genechten,
widow of William E. H. Brown. The
first petition asks for the annulment
and setting aside of all of the sales
of the Rupp property for reasons cited
in the following petition and the sec
ond petition asks that letter of Earl
Brown filed by Mrs. M. j. Manent as
his will be set aside for seasons also
set out in petition.
PETITION TO SET ASIDE WILL.
To The Honorable The Judge OF The
Civil District Court For The Parish
OF Orleans, Division e"
The petition of Mrs. Alice L. Won
Genechten, widow of William E. H.
Brown, with respects shows:
THAT your petitioner is the
paternal grand mother, and sole heir
at law of Earl c. Browne.
H-That Mrs. Esther Manent has
filed herein an alleged last will and
testament of said decedent, in the
form of letter alleged to have been
written dated and signed by the de
| ceased, at New York on the 18th, day
of June 1918, a duly certified copy oil
| which is annexed hereto as par
hereof; that said alleged last will ant
testament was probated in these pre-
ceedings on February 14th, 1919.
| III-That Mrs. Esther Manent al
leging herself to be legatee undel
said purported last will and tesla
ment has applied to be appointed
dative testamentary executrix of thi
estate.
| IV-Petitioner AYERS that said alleg
ed last will and testament is not il
fact or in law testament, and wa
not intended as such by the write
thereof; that said document bear
upon it's face prohibition of it
being made public: that it declare
that it is only to be given effect il
case anything should happen to hin
while on a voyage he is about to take
that it declares that another dQcu
ment therein called withdrawal re
ceipt on the ~ Y Saving Bank, whicl
was not made complete by the writer
was necessary to carry the same int
effect; that the alleged beQuets there
in made are not such as to, and wer
not intended as to constitute dispC
sition "mortis causa" that said doct
} ment as a whole was not intende
otherwise than to inform the perso
to whom it was addressed what hi
wishes were, in case anything shout
happen to him on the voyage he wa
about to take; that the person t
whom said letter was addressed wa
not sufficiently identified therein a
. to make certain a donation, withou
the withdrawal receipts therein RI
ferred to, and which was not compile
ed by the writer thereof, but was {
be filled in by the addressee, an
intended as a part of said letter.
What the recessed made severs
voyages after the date of said lette
and died at his home in this cit
several months thereafter on Octobe
goth, 1918; and that between tn
date of said letter and the date
his death had fallen heir to a on
fourth interest in the estate OF 81
: uncle Peter Rupp whose successio
had been opened in this Court undo
the No. 125,024 of the docket OF tn
Honorable Court.
i VI-That the aforesaid document
null, void and of no effect as la'
: will and testament, and should be
: declared; that the order rendere
r herein ordering the proof, registr,
, | and execution of the said alleged la!
will and testament, and the taking