SUCCESSION OF HYDE

No. 53917.

292 So.2d 693 (1974)

Succession of Chester Butler HYDE. Florence Hyde FREELAND et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Applicants, v. Emma Kalny HYDE, Defendant-Appellant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herschel N. Knight, William N. Knight, Knight & Knight, Jennings, for plaintiffs-applicants.

Edmund M. Reggie, Reggie & Harrington, Oscar W. Boswell, II, Crowley, for defendant-respondent.


CALOGERO, Justice.

Chester Butler Hyde died testate on October 29, 1962 survived by his second wife, Mrs. Emma Kalny Hyde, two children of his first marriage, and four grandchildren, issue of a deceased child of the first marriage. By an olographic testament dated August 17, 1960 he named Mrs. Hyde executrix of his estate and bequeathed to her "the usufruct until her death of all property both separate and community owned by me at my death." It is this bequest to...

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