Williams v. Hamilton

BOLIN, Judge.

Plaintiffs, thirty-eight direct descendants of Sallie Evans, sued the administrator of her estate, the attorney for the administrator, and a co-purchaser of the succession property, contending the entire succession proceedings and the judicial sale thereunder were null. Finding the action one asking that a judgment be declared null for fraud and ill practices, the trial court sustained defendants’ plea of prescription of one year and dismissed plaintiffs’ suit. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

The issue is which prescriptive period governs this lawsuit, i. e., the…