Succession of Navarro

Ludelíng, C. J.

This is a contest for the property of Jean Baptiste Navarro, who was a bigamist. He was married in his native country, 'Italy, in August, 3 833, to Marie Massucco. He came to Louisiana in 1841, and in 1851 he was married by a justice of the peace in Louisiana, to Anastasio Lafrance, notwithstanding his first marriage was undissolved.

*299Anastasie died on or about tlie twelfth of January, 1869, and J. B. Navarro died on the twenty-first day of the same month and year. A son, Paul Augustin Navarro, issue of their marriage, survived them.

Marie Massuceo died on the twenty-third of…