CALOGERO, Justice.
This civil appeal is from a trial court judgment in plaintiffs' favor which held that La.C.C. art. 1493, prior to its amendment in 1981, was unconstitutional insofar as it treated illegitimate children differently from legitimate children, granting only the latter the right of forced heirship.
Henry Crawford Bartie died testate on August 4, 1977. He had never married. In his statutory will, dated October 23, 1974, Bartie named a nephew,...
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