Fontenot v. Stark

OTT, Judge.

As payment for services rendered by him as attorney for the succession of J. B. Clark, C. A. Blanchard accepted notes from the widow of the deceased after the succession had been concluded. The widow had come into possession of some $22,-000 worth of property (according to the valuations in the succession proceeding), and all of the property which the widow had acquired through the succession was invested in the purchase by her of the Mangham telephone exchange in Richland Parish. The plaintiff in this suit and the widow of the deceased Clark were married in May, 1932.

In July,…