Legal Opinion

Succession of Turner

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 26, 1958No. 43545PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TATE, Justice ad hoc.

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal, after trial, of her suit to be recognized as the surviving half-sister of the deceased Edward Turner and thus entitled to share-in his estate, LSA-C.C. Art. 911.

Made defendant was Alice Smith Turner, decedent’s mother, 1 who had been recogniz ed by a 1934 judgment of'the Civil District Court as his sole heir soon after decedent died intestate, unmarried, and without descendant, upon said mother’s allegations that she was the sole surviving parent and that there were no collateral heirs, LSA-C.C. Arts. 888, 903, 907, cf., LSA-C.C. Art.…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Succession of LandSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1947
  2. Sanderson v. FrostSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1941
  3. Slaton v. KingSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1948
  4. Janney v. CalmesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1947
  5. Robinson v. HuntSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1946

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Copeland v. Wasserstein, Perella & Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2002
  2. Crawford v. DeshotelsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1978
  3. Alexis v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1992
  4. Picard v. Vermilion Parish School Bd.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 2001
  5. Bennett v. PorterLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2011

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