CRUMPACKER v. SPALDING

No. 45543.

132 So.2d 875 (1961)

241 La. 1001

Maurice L. CRUMPACKER v. Ira J. SPALDING et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lestage & Arnette, Knight & Knight, Herschel N. Knight, Jennings, for appellant.

Clarence E. Romero, Welsh, for appellees.


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Maurice L. Crumpacker, alleging that he was an adopted child of Milo and Dora Spalding, both deceased, instituted this suit to be recognized as a forced heir of Mr. and Mrs. Spalding and to be decreed the owner of an undivided one-sixth interest in their estates, a tract of land in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. Named as defendants were the children and grandchildren of the Spaldings.

The lower court denied plaintiff's prayer to be...

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