SUCCESSION OF MITCHELL

No. 56466.

323 So.2d 451 (1975)

Succession of Mrs. Josie M. MITCHELL. Josie M. MITCHELL. Eddie MORRISON, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Relators, v. Mrs. Annie B. Penny GRIFFIN et al., Defendants-Appellees-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 8, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vanue B. Lacour, Lacour & Calloway, Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs-appellants-relators.

Samuel Dickens, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellees-respondents.


TATE, Justice.

The central issue involves whether children, otherwise entitled to be legitimated by the marriage of their parents after their birth, Civil Code Article 198, are nevertheless deprived of this right because of their mother's prior marriage years earlier to a man who disappeared shortly afterwards.

The district and intermediate courts rejected the claim of the children that they were legitimated by the marriage of their parents. These courts did...

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