Santoine v. Maser

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining certain oppositions to a proposed judicial partition by recognizing the claims asserted by both the plaintiffs and defendants and dismissing the opposition as to other claims of the defendants. The defendants alone appealed.

Joseph Santoine, who originally owned the feal estate involved, died on April 20, 1923, intestate, and his succession was duly opened in the civil district court, parish of Orleans. His father and mother survived him and were recognized as forced heirs, entitled to one-half of the property. The deceased’s…