Succession of Yoist
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-First Judicial District Court, Parish of Pointe Coupee; L. B. Claiborne, Judge. In the matter of the succession of John Yoist. Action by collateral heirs, to set aside a universal legacy. Judgment in favor of the collateral heirs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
John Yoist, white, and Eudora Bergeron, colored, lived together in concubinage from the year 1870 to the time of his death, in July, 1910. Two children were born of this irregular union, Henry J. Yoist in 1873, and Eudora Yoist in 1884. At the time of the conception and birth of these children, there was no legal impediment to the intermarriage of their father and mother.
On January 26, 1905, John Yoist duly acknowledged said children by notarial act, and two days later, before the same notary, legitimated them, pursuant to provisions of article 200 of the Civil Code. Yoist never married, and…
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