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SUCCESSION OF CHAPMAN

No. 40885.

73 So.2d 789 (1954)

225 La. 641

Succession of CHAPMAN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 31, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herschel N. Knight, Grenese R. Jackson, Jennings, for J. Howard Wilson, Mrs. Lucille Wilson Walker and Mrs. Wilson Womack, defendants and appellants.

Stone & Toomer, Lake Charles, for Anna W. Chapman, defendant and appellant.

Jos. S. Gueno, Jr., Crowley, curator ad hoc for defendants and appellees.

Bruner, Mayeux & Landry, Crowley, for plaintiff and appellee.

PONDER, Justice.

The Citizens National Bank of Decatur, Illinois, the Executor of the Succession of Edmund B. Chapman, petitioned the lower court for a declaratory judgment fixing the status of a tract of land containing 163.43 acres with improvements thereon situated in Acadia Parish. The surviving widow, heirs and legatees were made parties to the suit. Upon hearing, the lower court gave judgment decreeing the ownership of the property to be one-half in the community...

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