Succession of Rusciana

SIMON, Justice.

Plaintiffs instituted this suit to recover one-half of the alleged enhanced value of separate property belonging to the defendant caused by improvements made thereon by the community existing between the defendant and the decedent and to be sent and put in possession of said property as the heirs of the decedent together with two minor heirs who come to decedent’s succession by way of representation.

The record discloses that the decedent died intestate on April 14, 1954; that she was married twice, first to Frank Canino who died in the year of 1922, and second to the defendant…