Succession of Stewart v. Succession of Turner

I PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge.

This is a partition action. The narrow issue before us is whether a succession representative can sue to partition immovable property that the succession co-owns with a third party. From a judgment finding the succession representative lacks the right to bring such an action, the succession representative, Margie Stewart Williams, appeals. We reverse.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

This case involves the rights of two separate, unrelated successions — those of Ellis Calvin Turner and Henry Stewart — to immovable property located at 923-925 Orleans Avenue in the…