Succession of Dukes v. Williams

REDMANN, Judge.

A judgment of possession obtained by a decedent’s three children of her first marriage placed them and a child of her second marriage into possession of her estate as her sole heirs. Her second husband sued the children (though no citation of the last child appears) to revoke that judgment, claiming that the wife’s originally separate immovable property had become community because of improvements made with community funds.

From judgment revoking the judgment of possession, the three children of the first marriage (hereafter “defendants”) appeal.

The husband asserts use of…