Case Name: Succession of GLANCEY
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1905-05-08
Citations: 114 La. 766
Docket Number: No. 15,584
Parties: Succession of GLANCEY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 766–767

Head Matter:
(38 South. 554.)
No. 15,584.
Succession of GLANCEY.
(May 8, 1905.)
DATIVE TESTAMENTARY EXECUTOR — APPOINTMENT.
Where the widow, as survivor in community, holds in usufruct all the property of the succession, and there are no debts except some court costs, which the attorney of the succession has promised to pay, with which promise the officers declare themselves to be-satisfied, and there is but one legacy, which has not to be paid, owing to the fact that the legatee lives with the widow and is unwilling that it should be paid before the death of the widow, the demand for the appointment of a dative testamentary executor is properly rejected by the lower court as being unnecessary.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish ■of Orleans; John St. Paul, Judge.
In the matter of the succession of Owen •Glancey. From an order rejecting a judgment for testamentary executor, Thomas Glancey and others, opponents, appeal.
Affirmed.
See 112 La. 430; 36 South. 483.
Theodore Cotonio, for appellants Thomas ■Glancey and others. McCloskey & Benedict, for appellee Mrs. Owen Glancey.

Opinion:
PROVO STY, J.
The widow, as survivor in community, holds in usufruct all the property of the succession. There are no debts, except some court costs, which the attorney •of the succession has promised to pay, with which promise the officers decíate themselves to be satisfied. There is but one legacy, and it has not to be paid, owing to the fact that the legatee lives with the widow and is unwilling that it should be paid before the death of the widow.
Under these circumstances, the lower court properly rejected the demand for the appointment of- a dative testamentary executor, as being unnecessary.
Judgment affirmed.