Soileau v. Ortego

FOURNET, Justice.

This -is an action by collateral heirs of Mrs. Celima Soileau to have declared null and void her last will and testament, and also to set aside the proceedings probating the will, including the judgment sending the legatee thereunder into possession of decedent’s estate.

The defense was a general denial. There was judgment in the lower court in favor of plaintiffs, and the defendant has appealed.

Mrs. Celima Soileau died, testate, at her domicile in the parish of Acadia on the 31st of October, 1936, leaving neither ascendants nor descendants, but left as her sole heirs a…