In re Estate of de Laveaga

The trial of the case of the claimant Anselmo was far advanced, for about two months in actual operation, when there intervened the claimant Dolores Apolonia de Rivera. Her petition was filed November 29, 1898, nearly *425 two years after the petition of Anselmo, which was filed January 11, 1897, and follows the same form in the presentation of her case. She claims to have been born in 1872 of one Jesus Bustillos, by Jose Maria de Laveaga.

The principal witness in support of this claim is one Felizardo Flores, who testified to an acquaintance with the late Jose Maria de Laveaga begun at the house of Jesus Bustillos, which ripened into intimacy so that witness used to accompany Jose Maria to places of amusement and sometimes to his room; witness could not say that they were friends, but occasionally Jose Maria communicated things to him; Jose Maria worked in the mercantile house of T. Lemmen Meyer, and Flores was engaged in various small occupations; they came together mostly in the evenings in the house of Jesus Bustillos, met there Antonita, Carmelita, Josefa, and other members of the family; Francisco Montijo was there, also, and their mother; Flores saw Miguel de Laveaga at…