Succession of Trevino

CHASEZ, Judge.

Erasmo O. Trevino died testate at his domicile in New Orleans on November 17, 1963. He was married to Maude Ellen Deem, who survived him. There were no children born from the marriage and none were adopted, nor were the decedent and his wife ever adopted by anyone. His parents predeceased him and he left only collateral heirs at his death.

On April 2, 1964, Cecil B. Pettepher by petition opened decedent’s succession in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, alleging that he was a creditor of the estate and that decedent’s widow had refused to open her late husband’s…