IN RE SUCCESSION OF GORDON

No. 16656-CA.

461 So.2d 357 (1984)

In re SUCCESSION OF James GORDON. Emma Cromedy GORDON and Elvira Gordon Sanders, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Elizabeth GORDON and Linda Maxine Gordon Mims, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 4, 1985.

Writ Denied March 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones & Jones by Benjamin Jones, Monroe, for defendants-appellants.

Hamilton & Carroll by Orlando N. Hamilton, Jr., Oak Grove, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before FRED W. JONES, Jr. and JASPER E. JONES, JJ., and PRICE, J. Pro Tem.


PRICE, Judge Pro Tem.

Elizabeth Weston Gordon, alleged putative wife of decedent, James Gordon, and her children appeal the judgment of the trial court awarding all of the property of the decedent's succession to Emma Cromedy Gordon, the legal wife of decedent and to Elvira Gordon Sanders, the child of that marriage. We reverse the judgment of the trial court for the following reasons.

Emma Cromedy Gordon and Elvira Gordon Sanders filed a petition on September...

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