MATTER OF SUCCESSION OF KINCHEN

No. 13620.

391 So.2d 1278 (1980)

In the Matter of the SUCCESSION of Solomon K. KINCHEN.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

October 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. McGimsey, Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs-appellees, Isaac Kinchen, Samuel Kinchen, Solomon Kinchen, Joseph Kinchen, Elizabeth Satterfield, Lovey Satterfield.

Patrick J. Cooper, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant, Ellen Haynes Foster.

Before LOTTINGER, EDWARDS and PONDER, JJ.


LOTTINGER, Judge.

The validity of a nineteenth century marriage forms the substantive issue on this appeal, but a procedural question concerning prescription is also at issue. These issues arise in a suit by collateral heirs of the deceased, Solomon Kinchen, to be placed in possession of his estate.

Solomon K. Kinchen died on May 16, 1950. A judgment of possession was rendered on September 20, 1950, naming Annie Bell Haynes Kinchen, his surviving widow, as...

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