Succession of Thompson

FRUGE, Justice (ad hoc).

Corenthia Youngblood Thompson, born out of wedlock, died intestate. The claimants to her estate are Emaline Lewi's Banks, her mother, and Willie Thompson, her surviving husband. The district court rendered judgment in favor of the surviving husband and the mother has perfected this appeal.

Emaline Lewis Banks is claiming the estate under Article 922 of the Louisiana Statutes Annotated-Civil Code which provides as follows:

“Art. 922. The estate of a natural child deceased without posterity, be*998longs to the father or mother who has acknowledged him, or in equal portions to…