Veillon v. Lafleur's Estate

The applicant here is the widow of the de eujus, and she claims the so-called “widow’s homestead,” being the $1,000 allowed to a widow left in necessitous circumstances out of the estate of her deceased husband, by the terms of article 3252 of the Revised Civil Code of 1870, as amended by Act 17 of 1917, p. 25 (Ex. Sess.) and Act 242 of 1918, p: 433.

Her claim was allowed by the district court, but was rejected by the Court of Appeal, and this court granted her application for review of the judgment of the Court of Appeal “as a matter of right,” under the provisions of section 11 of article 7…