SUCCESSION OF WALLACE

No. 39877.

52 So.2d 858 (1951)

219 La. 297

Succession of WALLACE. WALLACE v. BANKS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashton L. Stewart, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

Weber & Weber, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Melton Wallace, contending that his deceased wife, Martha Williams Wallace, died intestate leaving neither ascendents nor descendants excepting a son, Willie Banks, born of an adulterous union, and as surviving spouse that he is entitled to the ownership of her undivided half interest in the community of acquets and gains formerly existing between them, instituted proceedings to have set aside an ex parte judgment recognizing the said son as...

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