Succession of Gaines

Opinion No. 1 of Consolidated Cases

MOISE, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted by the defendants from a judgment rendered by the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans in favor of

1. Elizabeth Gaines, Wife of Albert Ross, who is a daughter of the deceased, Henry Gaines; and

2. Mary Helton, Wife of Albert Cunningham, and

3. John Dennis Helton, who are the children of Hattie Gaines Helton, a deceased daughter of Henry Gaines.

The judgment maintained the legitimacy of Elizabeth Gaines Ross and Hattie Gaines Helton, and it named Elizabeth Gaines Ross, Mary Helton Cunningham and John Dennis…