In Re Gray's Succession

HIGGINS, Justice.

Three of the descendants of Silas Gray instituted this proceeding under the authority of Articles 927-933, inclusive, of the Revised Civil Code, to have themselves recognized as irregular heirs of the deceased and, as such, to be placed in possession of his estate, to the exclusion of his natural child and other descendants of the deceased’s natural children, against whom the plaintiffs (a grandchild and two great grandchildren) have pleaded the prescription of thirty years under the provisions of Article 1030 of the Revised Civil Code.

The petitioners alleged that Silas Gray…