Herndon v. Herndon

PRICE, Judge.

Plaintiff, an alleged acknowledged natural child of decedent, Jem Herndon, seeks to annul and set aside a prior judgment sending decedent’s widow and collateral relations into possession of the community and separate property left by decedent. Plaintiff alleges the judgment was obtained by fraud or ill practice as the defendants here*464in did not disclose to the court the fact that decedent left an acknowledged natural child which would have precluded the distribution of decedent’s property as now provided in the judgment.

The trial court sustained exceptions of no cause of action on…