SUCCESSION OF ROCKWOOD

No. 42066.

91 So.2d 779 (1956)

231 La. 521

Succession of Thomas ROCKWOOD and Sarah Bryant, Wife of Thomas Rockwood by First Marriage and Wife of Henry Wilson by Second Marriage.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horton & Horton, George W. Reese, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Ivy A. Smith, Jr., Dom C. Grieshaber, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.


HAMITER, Justice.

Plaintiff, Thomas Rockwood, Jr., prosecutes this appeal from a decree dismissing his suit to set aside two ex parte judgments recognizing the defendant, Henry Wilson, as the sole and only heir at law of Sarah Bryant Rockwood Wilson and placing Wilson in possession of her estate.

Thomas Rockwood, Sr. and Sarah Bryant were married on September 17, 1918, and during the existence of their community of acquets and gains the property involved herein...

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