SUCCESSION OF WILLIS

No. 2771.

224 So.2d 522 (1969)

Succession of Pizarro WILLIS. Amanda WILLIS, Administrix-Appellant, v. R. W. J. PEPPER and Minnie Ollie A. Pepper, Opponents-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 27, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Ray Bradford, Jr., Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellant.

Pharis & Pharis, by F. Jean Pharis, Alexandria, Shapiro & Shapiro, by Morris Shapiro, Alexandria, for defendants-appellees.

Before TATE, HOOD, and MILLER, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

The plaintiff, widow of the late Pizarro Willis and administratrix of his estate, appeals from judgment sustaining an opposition to the plaintiff's application to sell the decedent's property at private sale. The judgment also rejected the widow's claim for recognition of her privilege on the assets of the estate (being mostly separate property of the decedent), as a widow in necessitous circumstances—that is, the "widow's homestead" provided by...

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