SUCCESSION OF WESLEY

No. 40142.

62 So.2d 625 (1952)

222 La. 411

Succession of WESLEY.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Chandler, Shreveport, for appellant.

Frank A. Blanchard and Sylvian W. Gamm, Shreveport, for appellee.


LE BLANC, Justice.

This suit involves a contest over a succession of a decedent who was an illegitimate child of an unknown father. He was legally married to one of the contestants who claims his estate as surviving spouse under the provisions of Article 924 of the LSA-Civil Code. She is opposed in her claim by a half-sister of the decedent, a legitimate child of his deceased mother.

The surviving spouse, the first claimant, opened the succession by petition...

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