Succession of Marinoni

ODOM, Justice.

This is plaintiff’s second suit to gain possession of a one-third interest in the succession of Ulisse Marinoni, Jr., who died testate in New Orleans on September 12, 1931. In her first suit she alleged that her mother and said Marinoni contracted a “common law marriage” in the state of Mississippi on August 25, 1900; that such marriages, although not clothed with a formal ceremony, were recognized as valid under the laws of Mississippi and produced all the civil effects of a ceremonial marriage; that she was born of that marriage and was her father’s only child and heir; that…