SUCCESSION OF JOSEPH

No. 1547.

180 So.2d 862 (1965)

Succession of Mary Annie JOSEPH. Louis LEVY, Intervenor-Appellant, v. Mary Arthemise JOSEPH, Administratrix, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

November 30, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simon, Trice & Mouton, by John Rixie Mouton, Lafayette, for intervenor-appellant.

Johnson & LeBlanc, by Robert E. Johnson and Edward M. Boutte, Jr., New Iberia, for defendant-appellee.

Before TATE, HOOD, and CULPEPPER, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

The issue of this appeal is whether certain property acquired by a deceased wife while living separate and apart from her husband was her separate property (and thus inherited by her heirs), or whether instead it is community property and thus devolves to her former husband. The husband's appeal questions the trial court's determination that two lots acquired in the wife's name were her separate property.

The decedent ("Annie") and the husband...

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