BURK v. GIBBENS

No. 93-C-0855.

620 So.2d 478 (1993)

John S. "Jack" BURK, Administrator of the Succession of Gwendolyn M. Moore v. William B. GIBBENS, Jr., May B. Gibbens, and Nora G. Redmann.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

June 15, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Allyn Stroud, Brook, Morial, Cassibry, Pizza & Adcock, New Orleans, for relator, Nora G. Redmann.

Miles Trapolin, Trapolin Law Firm, New Orleans, for respondent.

M. Arnaud Pilie, Pilie, Pilie & Landry, New Orleans, for respondent.

Before BARRY, BYRNES and JONES, JJ.


BARRY, Judge.

Nora Redmann seeks review of a ruling which denied her exception of lack of personal jurisdiction.

The lawsuit concerns a dispute between two families who are descendants of (American hero) James Bowie's brother, Rezin Bowie. Several items allegedly from James Bowie are in dispute ("the Bowie heirlooms"), the central item being the only life portrait of James Bowie which was painted in New Orleans in 1834.

Rezin Bowie was the grandfather...

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