Rouse v. Rouse

LE BLANC, Justice.

The issue in the present litigation was before this Court recently when it had under consideration the case of Rouse v. Rouse, 218 La. 770, 51 So.2d 65. That suit involved a compromise settlement of the estate of John E. Rouse between Thelma Stroble Rouse who claimed to be his widow and certain of his brothers and sisters who claimed to be his legal heirs. The plaintiff in the present proceeding, Lillian Mailhos, attempted to intervene in that suit while it was on appeal before this Court but in the judgment rendered it was held that her intervention could not be allowed and…