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SUCCESSION OF HOFFPAUIR

No. 83-219.

443 So.2d 1166 (1983)

SUCCESSION OF Eddy HOFFPAUIR. Hollen HOFFPAUIR, Edith Hoffpauir Sarver, Lucy Hoffpauir Guidry, Dallas Hoffpauir, James Hoffpauir and Sydney Hoffpauir, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Effie Trahan HOFFPAUIR, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Miller & Craton, John F. Craton, Crowley, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Edwards, Stefanski & Barousse, Homer Ed. Barousse, Jr., Crowley, for defendant-appellee.

Before CUTRER, DOUCET and LABORDE, JJ.

CUTRER, Judge.

The issue presented in this appeal is whether a testamentary bequest to a surviving wife is excessive and subject to a reduction.

Eddy Hoffpauir died August 21, 1978. He had been married twice. He first married Elia Credeur who predeceased him in 1932. Of that marriage six children were born, plaintiffs herein. The second marriage in 1937 was to Effie Trahan, by whom three children were born. These...

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