FRANCOIS v. TUFTS

Nos. 89-CA-1472, 89-CA-1473, 89-CA-1474 and 89-CA-1475.

571 So.2d 813 (1990)

Waldo E. FRANCOIS v. James D. TUFTS, II (a/k/a J.D. Tuffts, II). SUCCESSION OF Waldo Emerson FRANCOIS. SUCCESSION OF Waldo E. FRANCOIS, a/k/a Waldo Emerson Francois. Dorothy WEISFELD, et al. v. J.D. TUFTS, II, etc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied February 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur L. Ballin, and Moise W. Dennery, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, for appellant Dorothy W. Francois.

K. Eric Gisleson, Steeg and O'Connor, New Orleans, for appellees J.D. Tufts, II, Linda Tufts Hebbler, Robert G. Tufts, and Frederick J. Tufts.

H. Gordon Hartman, New Orleans, for appellees Jean Nelson McEvoy and Richard Eric Nelson.

A.D. Freeman, Jr., New Orleans, for appellee Curator ad hoc for Milten J. Acker, III, Wiltz J. Bernard, Jr., J. David Tufts, III, Lilly May Bonfield and Thomas N. Tufts.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and LOBRANO and PLOTKIN, JJ.


LOBRANO, Judge.

This appeal arises out of several consolidated cases concerning the succession of the late Waldo E. Francois (Francois). In the case currently before this Court, Plaintiff/Appellant Dorothy Weisfeld Francois (Dorothy), wife of the deceased, brought suit against defendants/appellees J.D. Tufts, II (Tufts), and thirteen other heirs, in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. She made three requests: (1) that she be placed in possession of...

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