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Durst, Jeanne Mouledoux-succession, 1924

Sussession of Mrs. Jeanna Blanch Clothilde Mouledoux Durst No. 154174 Div. W Civil District Court
Filed Sept 3, 1924 
To the Honorable the Judge of the civil District Court for the parish of Orleans:
The petition of W.E. Durst, a resident of Fitzsimmons, Colorado, on behalf of his minor children, Rita Catherine Durst and John Edmond Durst, with respect shows:
1 That he was married to Jeanne Blanche Clothilde Mouledoux Durst, in this city, on the 8th day of July, 1918
2 That there are two minor children born of the union with the said Jeanne Blanche Clothilde Mouledoux Durst, Rita Kathryn Durst age 3 5/12 years and John Edmond Durst age 4 9/12 years.
3 That the said Jeanne Blanche Clothilde Mouledoux Durst departed this life, interstate, at her residence and place of domicile in the city of Fitzsimmons, state of Colorado, on the 8th day of July 1923.
4 That the decedent has left some personal property, situated within the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana; that there are privileged and ordinary debts, due by the estate, which renders an administration of the appointed administrator of this estate and to have the requisites of law.
5 Petitioner further represents that the decedent left as her sole and only heirs at law, your petitioners, minor children, Rita Kathryn Durst age 3 5/12 years and John Edmond Durst age 4 9/12 years. That petitioner waives an inventory, as the estate consists of cash money on deposit in the Interstate Trust and Banking Company, in the amount of Five Hundred and Twenty Four dollars and Fifty sSix Cents ($524.56).
wherefore, petitioner prays that his application for letters of administration on the estate of decedent be published, according to law; that, after all legal delays shall have elapsed, letters of administration issue to petitioner upon his complying with the requisites of law. And for all general and equitable relief.
(signed) W.E. Durst 
State of Colorado County of Adams } as I, Geo L Bradford Deputy County clerk and Recorder in and for said County of Adams, State of Colorado, do hereby certify that Charles F. Holzer Esq., whose name is subscribed to the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument in writing, and before whom the same was taken, was, at the time of taking such proof and acknowledge, a Notary Public in and for said county, duly commissioned sworn and acting as such and authorized to take the same; and further, that I am acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe that the said signature to the said proof or acknowledgement is genuine; and further, that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledgment according to the laws of the state of Colorado.
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Brighton, in said County, this 13th day of August A.D. 1924 (signed) Geo L Bradford Deputy County Clerk and Recorder.